Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Team Leader

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ mission is to empower those seeking answers to life’s most important scientific and healthcare questions. With a legacy spanning 80+ years, we have long been a trusted partner to our customers, who are working to transform science and healthcare with the next groundbreaking discovery. As part of our team of more than 2,900 associates across 130 countries, you’ll help drive our vision of accelerating answers—and our commitment to excellence.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Do you want to work in an innovative, cross-functional, and collaborative environment? Do you enjoy problem solving, continuous improvement, and ensuring products are of the highest quality? Are you in the early stages of being a people leader, or eager to become one? Then read on!

We are currently seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Team Leader who will be responsible for ensuring product quality and owning quality related processes. This is a Quality Engineering role but will also lead a small team of Quality Technicians, so there are also some supervisory responsibilities.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Inspecting and testing of materials, equipment, processes, and products to ensure quality specifications are met.
• Monitoring and analyzing quality performance: First-Pass Yield (FPY), Defect Per Unit (DPU), Complaints and other necessary Quality metrics to ensure high product quality and process improvement opportunities are identified.
• Working closely with Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, Development, Technical Support, and Suppliers to develop and implement manufacturing processes and quality controls.
• Identifying improvement opportunities and driving problem solving activities using quality engineering tools.
• Supervising a team of direct reports, inclusive of (not limited to) providing daily guidance and performance feedback.

The required qualifications for the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in quality, engineering, technology, or science from an accredited college or university
• Five years or more experience in Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, or a similar role, within a manufacturing environment
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 or ISO 13485 standards
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Effective leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Performing and/or hosting quality or process audits
• Quality Engineering tools such as Six Sigma, DMAIC, Statistical Process Control, 5 why’s, 8D, PFMEA, Design of Experiment, etc.
• 1+ year managing people

The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $120,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.