Validation Engineer - Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences
Holdrege, NE 68949
About the Job
Responsibilities:
- Support the plant on assigned product initiatives with technical expertise and determine associated resource needs to accomplish project goals.
- Provide critical quality engineering direction to Branding project with respect to generally accepted quality engineering tools/principles, such as root cause analysis, FMEAs, risk mitigation, validation, DOE/other process improvement tools, measurement and measurement systems analysis, sampling, and control plans.
- Applies moderate level application of technical principles, theories, concepts, techniques, and quality sciences / tools.
- Develops solutions to routine problems of moderate scope.
- Maintain alignment to company quality policies, procedures, and practices through consistent application of sound quality assurance principles. Make basic procedural updates.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of applicable regulatory, Corporate and/or Unit requirements.
- Is an extended team member representing Site Quality on new product development projects and a team member for sustaining engineering projects.
- Establishes a strong working relationship with all levels of operations to appropriately monitor and analyse in-process inspection, process control activity, waste and reject rates, PM compliance, environmental control, and customer complaint levels in order to take a lead role in identifying and documenting continuous improvement projects.
- Approve protocols and reports for all validation and change control activities to ensure compliance to established procedures.
- Utilize Lean and Six Sigma problem solving methods, data analysis tools and techniques to support department validation efforts around continuous improvement.
- B.S. degree in Engineering Required. (Industrial, Mechanic) Desired.
- 3+ Years Quality experience including Validation and Quality Engineering responsibilities.
- Demonstrate success with statistical and problem-solving methodologies.
- Excellent knowledge of the principles for Quality Engineering and Quality management as related to validation process on medical devices.
- Strong understanding of failure analysis, test methods and engineering tolerances.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient with Minitab or other statistical software, MS Word, Excel, and MS project.
- Six Sigma Certification Desired:
- ASQ CQE.
- Working knowledge of 21CFR820, ISO 13485.
Source : Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences