Quality Manager - Capital Equipment & Furnishings
Medline · Chicago, IL
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $116k–$174k
- Travel
- 25%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 10 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Medline (medical devices) in Chicago, IL. , genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Base pay
- $116k–$174k
- Day to day
- about 25% travel
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How this role compares
Against 40 other live quality postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- About 35% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (4+ vs 3+)
Typical $95k–$120k, from 27 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 49%
- Root cause 46%
- Supplier quality 44%
- SPC 39%
- ✓ Team leadership 39%
- FMEA 34%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- The posting says about 25% travel. Between which sites?
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This plant: Medline in Chicago
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Full description from MedlineAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job Summary
Responsible for managing the quality and compliance for applicable products and processes for assigned department(s). Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- ◆Ensure quality and regulatory compliance with applicable regulations (ex. QSR, GMP,ISO) pertaining to the applicable life cycle and regions of distribution for the product.
- ◆Acts as a liaison with the Divisions, Suppliers, Manufacturing, and/or Operations to ensure quality products and customer satisfaction.
- ◆Manage complaints and develop new approaches to solve problems identified during the investigation process.
- ◆Identify and manage the execution of continuous improvement projects.
- ◆Assist the division in product evaluation from a quality assurance and regulatory compliance standpoint. Assist in the planning of the design, testing, inspection, and process validations to assure quality products or components.
- ◆Ensure all quality issues are resolved to customer satisfaction, in a timely manner.
- ◆Resolve issues relating to product or production quality by interfacing with internal and external customers.
Management
Education
- ✓Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or Technical Field, or relevant experience.
Work Experience
- ✓At least 4 years of experience related to the design/operation of medical device or drug combination product platforms, design controls, risk management, including working in compliance with QSR/GMP/ISO
requirements
or other regulated industries (21CFR 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDSAP, and MDR).
Education
- ✓None
Work Experience
- ✓At least 2 years of supervisory/managerial experience preferred.
- ✓Experience in Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Food, Cosmetic, or Personal Products Industries preferred.
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- •Typically oversees professional employees/teams OR typically manages non-professional employees through Supervisors in manufacturing, distribution or office environments
- •Day-to-day operations of a group of employees;
- •May have limited budgetary responsibility and usually contributes to budgetary impact;
- •Interpret and execute policies for departments/projects and develops.
- •Recommend and implement new policies or modifications to existing policies.
- •Provide general guidelines and parameters for staff functioning.
- •Hiring staff, recommending pay increases, performing performance reviews, training and development of staff, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies.
Certification / Licensure
- •None
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- •Broad technical knowledge of relevant standards and regulations (21CFR 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDSAP, and MDR etc.)
- •Proficiency in analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- •Demonstrated ability to control and coordinate concurrent projects, competing priorities and critical deadlines.
- •Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
- •Position requires travel up to 25% of the time for business purposes (within state, out of state and/or internationally).
Certification / Licensure
- •None
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- •None
Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.