Quality Control Lead senior

Job Description:

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing.

We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Quality Control Lead senior to join our team in Costa Rica. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and making an impact on our life-saving work, this may be a good fit for you!  As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will:

SUMMARY: Organize QC tasks and assign resources. Responsible for operating testing services and equipment in the production floor. Perform quality inspection in the production floor as to the incoming material.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinates tasks related to Quality Control inspections, organizes and assigns resources including allocation of Quality Inspectors to perform daily activities on the production floor.
• Support to Quality Supervisor by training and assessing technical performance of Quality Inspectors.
• Support to Quality Supervisor by ensuring that all Quality Inspectors completed required regulatory and on the job training on time.
• Executes Quality Inspector functions as required due to temporary personnel leaves or work load increments.
• Opens. reviews and closes nonconformance reports.
• Routes document revisions in the document control system.
• Communicates with Manufacturing Leaders and Supervisors to resolve basic to intermediate quality issues.
• Executes inspections, adjustments, testing and equipment maintenance as required.
• Manage priorities of closing of lots for exportation
• Assists engineers with troubleshooting and debugging of processes.
• Maintains clean and orderly work area.  Self-motivated and results-oriented.
• Follows standard operating procedures for all tasks.
• Understands and complies with the quality system of the local site.
• Support the Supervisor by ensuring that all Quality Inspectors completed all appropriate quality safety and environmental hazard training, and comply with applicable safety requirements.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Have supervisory responsibilities: Yes

Leadership: Yes

Supervises:

• Quality Control Inspector
• Quality Control Lead

Supervision:

General supervision: routine duties are performed with minimal supervision; standard practices or procedures allow proceeding alone at routine work; occasional check of work while in progress; work is reviewed upon completion.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school degree, with 8+ years of experience in quality or medical devices industry. Intermediate personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:  Assertive communication.

Writes basic technical reports. Actively participates in team meetings.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to management or employees of organization levels.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Demonstrates basic problem-solving skills and ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

MANUAL DEXTERITY

Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, works with the fingers, and perceives attributes of objects and materials.

VISION REQUIREMENTS: Ability to adjust focus

WORK SCHEDULE/HOURS: Monday to Friday (Shift A)

TRAVEL: NONE

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS

Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Other physical working conditions:     

Lifting or carrying items.

Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL:

Light physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of a productive/technical nature.

COMMENTS:  This position description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job.  It is not intended to be all‑inclusive of the work to be performed.  The incumbent(s) will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.