Senior Principal Quality Engineer - Advanced Surgery

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter!

• Applies innovative techniques in the areaofexpertise to develop new or improved products and processes
• May lead a large scale program or several small projects with sophisticated features
• Independently plans, schedules and leads cross-functional team in detailed phases of the Quality work in a project
• Identifies and manages continuous improvement projects with the objective of achieving quality, reliability and cost improvement
• Lead audit ready status efforts for assigned areas and assist other areas within the facility in understanding FDA, ISO and Baxter quality requirements
• Maintain a high level of expertise in current regulatory requirements, and serve as a plant resource for compliance to these requirements
• Lead in thedevelopmentof customer awareness and understanding activities for areas of direct responsibility, and where appropriate, assist and support such activities throughout the facility
• Take lead role in NCR/CAPA activities such as investigation, implementation, or verification of effectiveness
• Support risk management activities as they relate to product and post market surveillance.
• Provide product quality support on new product development, risk management, design transfer and sustaining engineering core team
• Work collaboratively with R&D to develop Product Design Requirement and & Test Methods for successful Design Verification and Validation
• Defend/support product designhistoryfile(DHF) in internal and external audits
• Provide PQ support to 510(k) submission, product launches, product recalls/field actions, NCRs and CAPA investigations

• B.S.degree in Engineering
• Minimumof8years’experience in Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering or related field
• Demonstratedsuccess in delivering results on several technical/product/Quality challenges
• ASQ and/or Six Sigma Blackbelt Certification preferred
• Product development experience with medical devices preferred
• Proficient in relevant products or process development processes (i.e. NPD and sustaining-life cycle management)
• Must have experience with crafting/managingDesignHistoryFile(DHF) and Risk Management File (RMF)
• Demonstrates leadershipskills to handle sustaining product support activities involving Complaint investigations, Trigger evaluations and Change controls
• Good project management skills
• Recognized as a technical expert by peers and other personnel within the business unit
• Extensive multi-functional team experience, including technical and non-technical work
• Ability to coordinate and present technical and project mgt. overviews without assistance
• Solidunderstandingof FDA Regulations (e.g. 21 CFR Part 820), ApplicationofGood Laboratory Practices, ApplicationofGood Manufacturing Practices, ISO (e.g. ISO13485 and ISO14971) and other applicable standards (e.g. IEC60601 and IEC62304 electromechanical medical device) and ISO 22442 (Med Devices using animal tissues) and regulatory requirements (e.g., EU MDD and MDR)

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