Supplier Quality Engineering Manager

Nova Biomedical is hiring a Supplier Quality Engineering Manager in our Waltham, MA headquarters. This is an opportunity for a medical device supplier quality engineer to take on a people management role at a growing company. Responsibilities will include ensuring that the Supplier Quality Engineering team enforce Quality System practices related to supplier activities throughout design transfer, incoming inspection, planning, production, and testing. Conduct data trending and monitoring of supplier activities and work with Quality and Operations teams to ensure completion of projects.

Nova Biomedical is a company dedicated to using advanced technology to develop better blood testing analyzers for medical use. Nova is the largest privately owned IVD company in the U.S. with over 1,200 employees globally.

At Nova Biomedical, we practice our core values of mutual respect, honesty, and integrity throughout the company. With a strong sense of family in the workplace, we are proud that one third of all our employees have been with us for over 10 years.

Responsibilities:

• Provide general oversight for the management and improvement of Nova Biomedical’s Supplier Quality System, including quality planning, quality control planning, inspection procedures, document controls, change management, process controls, quality records, corrective and preventive activities, validations, customer complaint investigations, and data management.
• Work to maintain consistent relationships with existing suppliers and play a role in creating relationships with new suppliers.
• Ensure non-conforming material reports (NCMRs) issues are appropriately dispositioned and analyzed.
• Maintain key metrics to monitor supplier quality.
• Ensure supplier CAPAs adequately address quality problems according to Nova’s requirements.
• Ensure timely reviews of NCMR database.
• Develop and monitor annual Supplier Audit Schedule to ensure audits are conducted as planned.
• Contribute to Nova Biomedical’s Product Line Quality Committee (PLQC) providing feedback related to supplier activities.
• Ensure suppliers apply good engineering principles to the production of Nova Biomedical product. 

Highlights of benefits offered to Nova Biomedical employees include Blue Cross Blue Shield medical plan, tuition reimbursement, matching 401K, delicious and company subsidized cafeteria and an innovative scholarship program for children of employees.