Graduate Quality Engineer - Quality Assurance (Medical Devices)

Job description

Graduate Quality Engineer – Quality Assurance Remediation –

Multiple Opportunities! (Competitive salary and benefits)

Location: Hull, UK

Smith & Nephew is a diversified advanced medical technology business that supports healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries to improve the quality of life for their patients. We have leadership positions in Orthopaedic Reconstruction, Advanced Wound Management, Sports Medicine and Trauma:

• Orthopaedics Reconstruction - joint replacement systems for knees, hips and shoulders

• Advanced Wound Management - wound care treatment and prevention products used to treat hard-to-heal wounds

• Sports Medicine - minimally invasive surgery of the joint

• Trauma & Extremities - products that help repair broken bones

We have 14,000 employees around the world.

Annual sales in 2014 were more than $4.6 billion.

We are a constituent of the UK's FTSE100.

Job Summary:

This is a great opportunity for competent science based / engineering graduates to join the Quality Assurance department within medical devices and rotate across the different areas of compliance, regulatory, quality, new product development and design and additional areas as well as take part in an exciting new high profile remediation project here at smith and Nephew.

Specifically as a graduate quality engineer, you would get involved in the development of the full reliability and inspection plan for all new products. This involves evaluating products, manufacturing processes, assembly processes, and supporting quality control activities through training, inspection procedure preparation, and technical support. Scope to train and also learn on the job as well as shadow key individuals across the business and get lots of great exposure across a broad area is a key element of this role. Potential to eventually do a secondment abroad in Asia could be a prospect for the right individuals after their first or second year of joining the firm.

What will the role entail?

You may be involved in the following activities as part of your day to day responsibilities:

• Supporting new product development (NPD) and implementation via project quality plans, which may include needed inspection, test and audit procedures as well as process/product validation.

• Assisting with implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and installation of statistical and non-statistical process controls.

• Leading the review of standard and non-standard analysis evaluation of issues such as the internal audit program, CAPA, materials review and complaint analysis.

• Leading the review, disposition and corrective action activities associated with discrepant components, materials, sub-assemblies and finished products.

• Ensure that quality reporting is maintained within the team.

Desired profile

Qualifications:

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An honours degree in a relevant discipline would be ideal so Bachelor of Science Degree in Electro-mechanical, Mechanical, Materials Science, Chemistry, Manufacturing, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or a science based degree is required.

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Degree results of ideally a 2:2 classification and above would be required.

Experience, Attributes and Knowledge:

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Design Control experience is highly desirable but not essential.

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MS Office suite IT packages would be ideal as well as proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint.

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A keen interest in quality assurance, regulatory or compliance as well as NPD would be key.

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Excellent written and communication skills are essential due to the nature of the work.

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Ability to prioritise to meet strict deadlines.

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Ability to organise and must have a high attention to detail.

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Proactive and can do, positive attitude as well as a collaborative way of working would be key here.