Job Description:
< QA Engineering Group Leader
1. Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources
2. Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews
3. Monitors daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to, experienced exempt employees, or skilled non exempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
4. Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures
5. Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit
6. Contributes to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
7. Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc).
8. Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budgets through regular analysis of cost and spending.
9. Translates department goals into individual objectives and KRAs.
10. Identifies, develops and implements processes to improve department performance.
11. Monitors departments activities and records to ensure compliance independent action through critical decision making.
12. Provides manufacturing support by defining work assignments directed to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements utilizing Quality System tools. May also direct work assignments for quality control auditors.
13. Directs Quality personnel to support new product development by defining projects focused on new products/process development based on coordination with management, project leaders, & design engineers.
14. Implements improvements to Quality Systems and tools by directing personnel to gather data on existing quality tools, identify weaknesses, and research/select new tools based on findings.
15. Ensures sustaining support of Quality System and regulatory compliance by individually working quality system issues and by delegating project work for maintaining quality system capability.
16. Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
Skills/Experience Requirements
1(Experience/Education) Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Advanced degree preferred.
2. (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Monitors progress of exempt individuals, teams, supervisors or nonexempt technical individuals toward departmental goals; monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit; monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
3. (Cognitive Skills) Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; facilitates others involvement in the continuous im