Quality & Regulatory Manager / Medical Device / ISO 13485

Job description

Position: Quality & Regulatory Manager / Medical Device / ISO 13485

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000

Location: West Sussex

Currently seeking a Quality & Regulatory Manager to lead the a QARA division for a leading Medical Device company based in West Sussex to ensure continued compliance with ISO13485 and the Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC) along with other relevant regulations. The Quality & Regulatory Manager will promote Continuous Improvement within the company and support the development of LEAN and Six Sigma methodologies and drive improvements across the business to include the supply chain and distribution to maintain and improve product quality and process efficiency.

Quality & Regulatory Manager- Key Responsibilities:

• Lead quality, Continuous Improvement, Lean or Six Sigma initiatives.
• Lead and provide direction and objectives for the QA team ensuring processes within the QMS are maintained and improvements made.
• Ensure internal audits of the Quality Management Systems are carried out to maintain continued compliance with appropriate standards and regulations and make any recommendations for improvement.
• Support notified body audits and 3rd party audits and ensure all findings are followed up and closed out in a timely manner.
• Provide progress reports on Departmental KPIs and represent the Quality Department during Senior Management meetings in order to report status and recommend areas for improvement.
• Support new product development ensuring quality plans, specifications, training and full validations are complete and ensure a smooth handover to production.
• Ensure the shop floor is fully supported to ensure manufacturing quality issues (NCRs) are dealt with and closed out in a timely manner. Ensure associated documentation is completed and follow up until actions and documentation including database records are closed out.
• Manage corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) and lead CAPA teams as necessary.
• Ensure validation of new materials or materials changes through full validation, training and monitoring.
• Lead Continuous Improvement (CI) projects or assist with Continuous Improvement initiatives and communicate progress to CI teams with regards to key KPIs including waste and customer complaints.
• Manage change control and ensure the document control system is maintained.
• Establish supplier quality performance criteria and monitor supplier performance, including assessing supplier’s product specifications and approval of suppliers through site visitation and audit.
• Ensure good collaboration with suppliers and the follow up and closure of supplier quality issues

Quality & Regulatory Manager- Education/Experience required:

• A Quality professional, educated to degree level (or equivalent), with considerable quality experience within a medical device related environment.
• Knowledge of the Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC and experience creating and maintaining CE technical files.
• Ideally Black Belt or minimum Green Belt Lean Six Sigma trained with experience of implementation including DMAIC, 8D, 5S, process capability, DOE.
• Lead Auditor or trained as an internal auditor.
• Experience working in the medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
• Computer literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

The company are keen to find someone with a good balance of both Quality & Regulatory experience who is able to manage a team but prepared to be hands on where necessary.

If you are interested in this post then please apply via Lauren Harris at the X4 Group and call on to discuss further.

Key Skills: Quality / QA / Quality Assurance / Regulatory / RA / Technical File / CE Mark / ISO 13485 / Medical Device / MDD / QMS / Quality Management System