Job highlights

- Occasional travel may be required to support product development activities,supplier visits,or audits
- Experience with design or sustaining engineering required.
- Minimum 7 years experience in design or sustaining engineering required
- Experience with Design Controls. Statistical knowledge and understanding of measurement uncertainty. .

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.

Job Title: Sr. Quality Design Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Summary:

The Senior Quality Engineer will support and ensure the implementation of robust and compliant design control practices across both new product development and sustaining engineering activities for the iovera product line. This role serves as a quality representative within cross-functional teams, driving compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, EU MDR) and internal quality standards. The Senior QE will play a key role in evaluating design changes, risk management activities, and quality documentation throughout the product lifecycle, while also supporting complaint investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

- The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by an individual assigned to this job. Other duties may be assigned.
- Collaborate with R&D; and cross-functional teams to ensure design control requirements are met throughout all phases of product development and lifecycle management.
- Support design verification and validation activities, risk management, and design review processes to ensure products meet applicable safety, performance,



and regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate and provide quality input on engineering design changes, ensuring appropriate documentation, traceability, and risk assessment are conducted.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of design control processes, templates, and procedures to align with current regulatory expectations and business needs.
- Participate in sustaining engineering projects, providing quality oversight to maintain compliance and support product improvements.
- Support the complaint handling process by reviewing and analyzing complaint data, participating in root cause analysis, and identifying design-related trends or failure modes.
- Assist in the preparation of quality deliverables for regulatory submissions, including 510(k)s, technical files, and IDE-related documentation.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing and presenting relevant design history and risk documentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance to ensure consistent and aligned approaches to design quality.
- Contribute to management review inputs and quality metric tracking related to design control and product quality performance.
- Perform other quality-related duties assigned by management, including but not limited to supporting CAPA investigations, nonconformance (NC) evaluations, data analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Occasional travel may be required to support product development activities, supplier visits, or audits.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

- This role does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Interaction:

- The incumbent works closely with various departments (e.g., QC,



QA, Operations, Regulatory and within R&D;).

Education and Experience:

- BS Degree or higher in engineering field required (e.g., Electrical, System, Mechanical engineering)
- Experience with design or sustaining engineering required
- Minimum 7 years experience in design or sustaining engineering required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- A practical and working knowledge of ISO 13485, 21 CFR 820, EU MDR
- Experience with Design Controls
- Statistical knowledge and understanding of measurement uncertainty
- Detail oriented, well organized and have excellent communication skills
- Able to accomplish objectives with minimal supervision

Skills:

- Successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Duties of this job may involve standing and/or walking, but for most part sitting for extended periods of time. Duties also involve daily keyboard data entry.
- Close vision and the need to focus on computer screen, use of hands, fingers and wrist to type on keyboard and manipulate mouse.
- Will need to lift and move boxes of paper and binders weighing up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment:

- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Typical office setting with a laboratory, offices, warehouse, and cubicles.
- Noise level is moderate with consistent printer, telephone ringing and conversation.

TekWissen Group is an equal chance employer supporting workforce diversity. Disclaimer: This job posting and Location has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.

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