Program Manager, Quality, Florence Site

Job Description SummaryDevelop and maintain systems, rules, and processes to ensure fulfillment of internal and external requirements. Ensures that projects and products are capable and will meet specified standards (Preventive). Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
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Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Creates a Quality culture by driving compliance activities around a specific product, site or region. This includes being responsible for the total quality management system for the business and driving Quality metrics. Ensures quality and regulatory compliance while driving process effectiveness and efficiency. Represents GE Healthcare to external agencies and champions the evolution of the quality culture which includes executing and driving quality objectives, metrics, reporting and operating mechanisms.
• Utilizes in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy. Basic knowledge of related job disciplines.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.
• Jobs at this level function with some autonomy but are subject to functional practices and precedents or are covered by well-defined policies or review of end results. The job allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability (quality, volume, timeliness etc.).
• Uses some judgment and has the ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems. Has ability to prioritize information for data analysis. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 5 years work experience, High School Diploma with 10 years of relevant work experience or Master's Degree with 3 years of work experience.

• Minimum of 5 years working in a regulated industry.

• Demonstrated understanding of Medical Device QMS requirements and regulatory requirements including, but not limited to FDA CFR 21 820 and ISO 13485.

• Effective problem solving, root-cause analytical skills to lead and influence others to drive change (cross-functionally and globally)

• Ability to communicate effectively in English (both written and oral).

Desired Characteristics

• Quality Assurance/Quality Engineering experience in the medical device or pharmaceutical industry, or experience in design engineering or manufacturing engineering in the medical device field.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Quality Management System tools & continuous improvement methodologies

• Proven ability to effectively communicate within all levels of the organization around concepts of design controls, design verification and validation activities; production &process controls; Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA), complaints & risk management; & product quality improvement using tools such as six sigma, DFR, etc.

• Experience performing internal and external audits.

• Demonstrated ability to make risk-based decisions in a compliant manner.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

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Additional Information

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.