QA Engineer

Description

My client, a global healthcare company based in Co. Tipperary, is currently recruiting for the role of QA Engineer for Maternity Leave Cover. The successful candidate will provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, help ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer and provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products

Key Responsibilities:
- Identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, non-conforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, identifying primary root causes and suggesting corrective and preventative actions.
- Assist in the development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members. May also be responsible for providing input to risk analyses and FMEAs.
- Become skilled at using Process Monitoring Systems by starting to identify critical process steps and applying basic methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
- Assist Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g. scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data based on previous program templates and by assisting in the appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Become skilled at using Quality Tools & Training Materials by working with existing quality tools and training materials, and by understanding evolution/history of tools in use.
- Participate in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
- Participate in CAPA activity.
- Participate in FDN Investigations.
- Cultivate a wide range of internal networks and begin to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.

Education & Job Skills:
- Bachelor's degree plus 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area, or Master's degree with 0-2 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.

This is a Maternity Leave Contract. If you feel you are a good fit for this role please apply directly to this advert or contact Derek Sheridan on for further detail.

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