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Senior Corporate Quality Engineer

Lubrizol · Brecksville, OH

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Level
Senior
Team
Quality
Degree
Required
Experience asked
5+ years
Industry
Chemicals
Posted
25 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A senior quality role at Lubrizol (chemicals) in Brecksville, OH. Plan, lead, and execute risk-based corporate internal audits, compliance assessments, and quality-system reviews across Medical Device manufacturing sites.

They ask for
5+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Root cause, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, Internal audits

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Quality Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $90k–$130k.

Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 49 quality engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 48 other live quality postings in Ohio.

Experience asked
Typical (5+ years)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Root cause 65%
  • ISO 9001 51%
  • PPAP 49%
  • Supplier quality 47%
  • FMEA 39%
  • APQP 37%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

Stands out: this posting asks for ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 5+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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Full description from LubrizolAs posted on their careers site.Show

requirements

  • ✓Drive the harmonization and continual improvement of site-level Quality Management Systems within a unified corporate QMS framework.
  • ✓Translate corporate quality policies and regulatory

requirements

into clear, standardized, and executable Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions, process maps, forms, and supporting tools.

  • ✓Serve as corporate process steward for assigned QMS elements, maintaining process documentation, monitoring performance, evaluating process effectiveness, and coordinating improvement activities across sites.
  • ✓Partner with site Quality teams and cross-functional process owners to conduct gap assessments, evaluate existing practices, define implementation requirements, and align local processes with corporate QMS requirements.
  • ✓Lead implementation planning, stakeholder engagement, training coordination, and effectiveness monitoring for new or revised corporate quality processes.
  • ✓Lead the development and optimization of harmonized quality processes, workflows, document structures, and business

requirements

implemented within the corporate electronic Quality Management System.

  • ✓Partner with digital quality, software quality, Information Technology, system owners, and site stakeholders to ensure that eQMS workflows accurately reflect approved business processes and applicable quality requirements.
  • ✓Plan, lead, and execute risk-based corporate internal audits, compliance assessments, and quality-system reviews across Medical Device manufacturing sites.
  • ✓Prepare clear and evidence-based audit reports that communicate compliance gaps, systemic risks, and opportunities for improvement to site and corporate leadership.
  • ✓Evaluate corrections, root-cause analyses, corrective-action plans, and effectiveness evidence associated with audit observations; monitor progress and escalate material compliance risks or overdue actions as appropriate.
  • ✓Analyze cross-site QMS data, audit results, process metrics, and quality trends to identify systemic risks, harmonization opportunities, and recommendations supporting management review and organizational objectives.
  • ✓Support the integration of risk-based thinking into corporate quality processes in accordance with ISO 14971 and applicable QMS requirements.
  • ✓Provide technical guidance on QMS integration, documentation architecture, process interactions, quality-system governance, and regulatory compliance.
  • ✓Support the integration of new facilities, acquisitions, or expanded operations into the corporate QMS framework, as assigned.
  • ✓Support regulatory, certification, customer, and other external audit-readiness activities, including targeted remediation and deployment support at Medical Device manufacturing sites.
  • ✓Coach and mentor site Quality personnel and cross-functional stakeholders on corporate quality processes, auditing principles, root-cause analysis, risk-based decision-making, and effective QMS implementation.
  • ✓Maintain awareness of evolving medical-device quality-system regulations, standards, and industry practices and assess their potential impact on corporate and site-level processes.
  • ✓Observe and promote Company standards and policies related to safety, quality, ethics, and productivity.

Required Qualifications

that Enable Your Success

  • ✓Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Computer Science, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
  • ✓5+ years of progressively responsible Quality Engineering, Quality Systems, or Quality Assurance experience in the medical-device industry or another highly regulated life-sciences manufacturing environment.
  • ✓Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, maintaining, or improving Quality Management System processes in accordance with ISO 13485.
  • ✓Experience with ISO 13485:2016, ISO 14971, and the U.S. FDA Quality Management System Regulation, 21 CFR Part 820.
  • ✓Demonstrated experience with QMS harmonization, process standardization, or the integration of quality systems across multiple facilities, business units, or acquired organizations.
  • ✓Experience translating regulatory

requirements

or corporate policies into controlled procedures, work instructions, process maps, forms, and implementation tools.

  • ✓Experience conducting internal quality-system audits and evaluating corrective actions, root-cause analyses, and effectiveness evidence.
  • ✓Experience defining business processes, workflows, requirements, or documentation structures for an electronic Quality Management System.
  • ✓Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
  • ✓Strong technical writing, analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and verbal communication skills.
  • ✓Ability to analyze quality-system data and communicate risks, trends, and recommendations to both techni
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Shape the Future with Us.

At Lubrizol, we’re bringing to life the chemistry behind clean water, efficient transportation, reliable infrastructure, critical medicines, and the products people rely on every day through science, sustainability, and a culture of inclusion.

As part of our global team, you’ll be empowered to make a real impact - on your career, your community, and the world around you.

Job Type: Full -Time / On-Site

Location: Brecksville OH (with a planned move to Wickliffe OH) or Wickliffe, OH

How You’ll Make an Impact

As a Senior Corporate Quality Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our quality excellence, helping design, deploy, and continually improve a harmonized Quality Management System across our Medical Device contract manufacturing operations. You will provide corporate-level quality systems expertise and partner with site Quality teams and cross-functional process owners to ensure that corporate and site-level systems meet applicable regulatory, industry, customer, and internal

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