Principal Quality Engineer AIR

Olympus Corporation is a global medical technology company dedicated to improving patient outcomes through advanced medical technologies. The Principal Quality Engineer will drive complex projects within the Quality organization, focusing on cross-functional team process improvements and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the development and implementation of the global regulatory requests for additional information communication process and activities
• Supports and monitors the completion of regulator requests for additional information to the US FDA, and other Regulatory Authorities as applicable
• Supports and contributes in cross functional teams on investigating, assessing and authoring responses
• Tracks, trends, and analyzes requests for additional information from regulators, respective corrective actions, and remediations; provide inputs to upstream processes for improvements
• Gathers, collates, and maintains AIR weekly report; distributes and presents to internal stakeholders
• Identifies issues that require prompt notification and presents/communicates to Olympus senior leadership in a clear and concise manner
• Escalates potential safety issues for risk assessment or health hazard assessment
• Supports and contributes the development of Global AIR communications
• Works together with the Customer Quality organization to identify, access, and analyze data that have impact on the company’s compliance with overall quality systems
• Apply sound, systematic problem-solving methodologies in identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and resolving quality issues
• Advise management on potential improvements or enhancement to quality systems and processes in the company
• Develops new approaches to solve problems identified as part of the team
• Participates in the implementation of Global Customer Quality initiatives and programs throughout the Global organization, as required
• Participates in the CAPA process as required as an assignee or project team member
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a science, engineering discipline, or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years in medical device industry leading projects with a focus on process improvement and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams effectively communicate with all levels of management and drive effective change
• Requires background and familiarity with applicable regulatory requirements, including but not limited to U.S.FDA, EU MDD/MDR, ISO 13485, Health Canada, MHLW, ANVISA, and TGA
• Experience in supporting sites / organizations through US FDA, Notified Body, and other International Regulatory Agency Audits
• Experience writing, reviewing, and providing feedback on requests for additional information or audit responses
• Experience working in a global organization and collaborating with multiple regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC, China & Japan) / company locations
• Experience working with, presenting, and communicating with executive leadership
• Experience with implementing tracking and monitoring tools
• Fluent in English language
• Since this is a Global Role, the individual will be expected to schedule meetings that accommodate multiple time zones. International travel up to 20% of the time should be expected
• Strong Interpersonal Skills, Ability to manage complexity, analytical, people management on a global basis, office 365
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time domestically and internationally