Sr Quality Systems Director

Careers that Change Lives
The Sr Quality Systems Director – Quality Site Lead has responsibility for leading operations quality and the deployment of quality improvement strategies and systems at the MECC Mfg. Site at Brooklyn Center, MN.
This position acts as liaison with OU’s, and other sister manufacturing facilities within the Americas East Manufacturing Region to drive quality operations strategies and activities resulting in the highest level of product quality and compliance. Emphasis will be on first time quality and continuous improvement of processes and systems and the execution of site quality strategies through direct accountability and influence within the operations organization.  This position provides leadership and resources to ensure compliance with all elements of the quality management system throughout the organization and ensuring quality system performance is measured and routinely reported/ escalated to executive management.
A Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Proactively manages quality assurance and compliance activities in order to produce the highest quality products and prevent defects.
• Assures that manufacturing quality and performance data are comprehensively measured, trended, reported, and acted on in a timely manner to ensure compliance and support continuous improvement. Ensures constant vigilance in line rejects, manufacturing related field returns of those products and changes to manufacturing process to assure the highest possible quality.
• Reviews, directs and manages manufacturing QA strategies, organization, and execution for results. Ensures that approaches are innovative, industry leading, and meeting the needs of customers and OU business strategies.
• Develops and maintains appropriate communications between OU’s to deliver on Medtronic’s overall quality and operations needs worldwide, collaborating as appropriate to ensure synergies with and between organizations to leverage a harmonized approach whenever possible.
• Assures the processes used in the manufacturing of products are properly developed, characterized, qualified, and validated to assure the highest possible quality and to ensure an uninterrupted supply of quality product to meet the needs of our customers.
• Collaborates with the operations teams as well as other internal and external partners to ensure the strategy is executed to achieve significant and measurable results.
• Lead the strategic planning efforts for area of responsibilities in the Annual Operation Plan (AOP) as well as the planning of Continuous Improvements Initiatives to drive efficiencies to achieve year over year programmatic savings commitments.
• Creates a world class Quality organization ensuring top talent is hired, developed, and retained.
• Develops and deploys Quality and Compliance strategies that are aligned with Medtronic’s strategy across areas of responsibility.
• Ensures effective processes are established within the organization to monitor quality and compliance execution. Implement proactive and preventive strategies for the resolution of quality and compliance opportunities.
• Creates a culture of continuous learning across areas of responsibilities where root causes on quality issues are identified and organizational learning is institutionalized.