Boston Scientific Senior Quality Manager 

United States, Minnesota, Arden Hills 

529418708

The Senior Quality Manager will lead a team of supervisors, engineers, and technicians to support manufacturing, new product development, post-market investigations, and Quality Systems for Capital Equipment and other medical device electronic assemblies. Key tasks include directing and prioritizing Quality signals and improvement projects to ensure the manufacture and delivery of high-quality products and facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements while partnering with Production, Engineering, R&D, and Process Development. Also, ensuring new products are implemented with key process controls, product checks, and preventative activities in place.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent.
• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Creates an entrepreneurial environment.
• Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments. May supervise non-exempt employees.
• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrates effective change leadership.
• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).
• Provides appropriate level of cross-functional and customer-oriented communications regarding the status of department and quality system operation, as well as product performance.
• Drives quality projects of major magnitude and scope and determine appropriate project staff assignments and schedules work to meet completion dates and deliverables.
• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.

What we're looking for in you:
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of people leadership experience
• Trained and experienced in BSC Quality System or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in multiple BSC quality systems
• Experience working in medical manufacturing environments
• Training and experience in Lean / DMAIC / Engineering Essentials methodologies

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement. The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.