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As the Quality Manager (Night Shift) provides site-level quality leadership during off-shift manufacturing operations. This role ensures compliance to QMS, regulatory, and customer requirements while supporting uninterrupted operations, real-time issue resolution, and strong quality culture across night shift teams.
This position reports to the Sr Manager Site Quality, that leads Quality on nights, located in Pensacola, Florida. This is an on-site role. At Cytiva, our vision is, to advance future therapeutics from discovery to delivery.
What you will do:
- Serve as the primary quality authority for night shift, providing real-time decision making and escalation as required
- Ensure consistent application of QMS, DBS/lean principles, and site procedures during night shift activities
- Oversee night‑shift investigations, ensure evidence‑based RCA, and escalate systemic issues to site quality leadership
- Lead containment, risk assessment, and disposition decisions for deviations, nonconformances, batch documentation, and material holds during off‑shift operations.
- Coach night‑shift teams on quality ownership, standard work, and DBS problem solving; identify trends and drive improvements that prevent recurrence
Who you are:
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Science, Business, or Engineering.
- Have at least 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Manufacturing Operations within Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Medical Device, Biopharma, or other FDA/EPA-regulated manufacturing environments.
- Possess an additional 2 years of leadership experience, in Operations, Quality Engineering within a regulated industry.
- Leadership and Communication: Proven ability to lead, coach, and mentor teams; manage performance; plan succession; and effectively communicate at all organizational levels, both written and verbal.
- Willing to go to Gemba
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Ability to travel 10% of the time to other Cytiva manufacturing locations in the US and Worldwide, as required.
- Ability to access gauges and equipment 5-6 feet off the ground, lift and move 20-35 lb. parcels.
- Contamination control, sterilization, sanitation, or E-beam processes, including ISO 14644 cleanroom operations.
- Enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, Veeva, or Magic, supporting laboratory or quality operations.
Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Business, or Engineering
- At least 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Manufacturing Operations
- 2 years of leadership experience in Operations, Quality Engineering
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and mentor teams
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What We Do
Beckman Coulter is committed to advancing healthcare for every person by applying the power of science, technology, and the passion and creativity of our teams to enhance the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving healthcare outcomes. Our diagnostic systems are used in complex biomedical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. Beckman Coulter offers a unique combination of people, processes and solutions designed to elevate the performance of clinical laboratories and healthcare networks. We do this by accelerating care with a menu that matters, bringing the benefit of automation to all, delivering greater insights through clinical informatics and unlocking hidden value through performance partnership. An operating company of Danaher Corporation since 2011, Beckman Coulter is headquartered in Brea, Calif., and has more than 11,000 global associates working diligently to make the world a healthier place.
