Associate Quality Engineer

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Up to 10% Requisition  About Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a global provider of clinically effective medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose driven innovation — a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs — to benefit patients and healthcare providers. Our portfolio is diverse, with solutions in the fields of vascular and interventional access, interventional cardiology, surgical, anesthesia, cardiac care, interventional urology, urology, emergency medicine and respiratory care.

Teleflex employees worldwide are united in the understanding that what we do every day makes a difference. For more information, please visit

Whatever the latest surgical breakthrough looks like, Teleflex is working to make it happen. From our Mini Lap® Percutaneous Surgical System to Weck® Hem-o-lok® Polymer Locking Ligation System, and Weck EFx® Shield™ Fascial Closure System, our portfolio of products adds up to a powerful offering of solutions that helps improve patient outcomes. These innovative, minimally invasive surgery products are offered alongside time-tested and trusted Pilling® Surgical Instrument and Lightsource solutions to provide a comprehensive set of solutions to meet the challenges of an evolving healthcare environment.

Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

As a member of a cross-functional team, the Associate Quality Engineer is responsible for quality issues in product development or improvement up to and including technology transfer and initial commercialization. The Associate Quality Engineer ensures that applicable elements of the Quality System and external standards are followed. As the voice of Quality, the Associate Quality Engineer applies best-practice quality, team-based and statistical tools and techniques, and promotes the value and use of such tools throughout the organization.

• Lead Quality Engineering activities in product and process design, including risk management, classification of quality characteristics, design inputs and review, technical drawings and specifications, and design verification and validation.
• Create and update design control risk management documents such as plans, hazard analyses, design FMEAs, and reports.
• Use appropriate statistical tools such as collecting and summarizing data, drawing conclusions with confidence, determining sample sizes, applying data distributions, identifying relationships between variables, reliability, design and analysis of experiments, and statistical decision making.
• Apply the most relevant and useful quality philosophies throughout Design Control and its related processes. Understand and manage work to minimize cost of quality throughout the product’s lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance of all practices to the Quality Management System. Ensure comprehensive documentation is available, adequate records are produced, and change management is implemented.
• Apply project management tools in cost/schedule/resource planning and assist others in doing the same.
• Apply various principles and techniques for developing and organizing teams and leading quality initiatives and continuous improvement. Facilitate meetings and aspects of projects. Assist in working through resistance to change and improvement.
• Define, apply and analyze the results of customer input in the development of Design Control Documentation such as Customer Needs and Product Requirements.
• Apply supplier management principles such as supplier selection, qualification, certification, and performance improvement.
• Understand the implementation of appropriate internal, national and international requirements and standards. Perform formal and informal audits as necessary.
• Identify and communicate opportunities to train others, including conducting a needs assessment, developing curricula and materials, and determining effectiveness.
• Define, identify, and apply product and process control methods such as developing control plans, identifying…