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Job Brief

Candela is recognized globally for its innovating energy-based technologies that change lives and our new brand embodies our continued commitment to innovating medical aesthetic treatment solutions based on solid science and effective outcomes.

We aspire to provide the highest levels of clinical, technical and customer support, and continue to build on the longstanding partnerships of trust we’ve established with physicians, their practices and the patients they treat.

Every role is important at Candela:

Candela seeks a Design Quality Assurance Engineer who will be responsible for supporting Design Quality Assurance activities in Product Development and Life Cycle processes including design controls, quality planning, risk assessments/analysis/management, design reviews, approval of test methods, design and process verification and validation test plans and reports. You will play an important role in reviewing and approving design changes and in developing/ improving risk-based product controls.

In the position you will be the contact person for quality related issues for R&D. Additionally, you will closely work together with QA-colleagues, R&D, project leads and production. You will issue QA documents with sponsors, review the analytical methods/ results, production records, and qualification as well as validation protocols and reports and participate in other QA tasks as needed.

Essential Skills to be a top contributor in this role:

• Responsible for Review and Approval of protocols and reports, SOPs and Master Documents pertaining to Research and Development activities and its compliance.
• Responsible to provide Quality support at various stages of Product Development.
• Responsible for the co-ordination with internal and external customer and R&D team to resolve Development related product quality issues.
• Responsible for review of Product Development Reports and relevant data.
• Coordinate and support for release of Pilot batches for studies.
• Ensure FDA and other regulatory knowledge and experience is applied to risk assessments
• Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure necessary process controls are in place for design changes.
• Act as an effective team member in the execution of Quality functions in compliance with FDA QSRs (Design Control, CAPA, etc.), ISO 13485 and other national and international quality and regulatory requirements and standards
• Contribute to the design, development and implementation of product assurance plans providing feedback to corrective and preventative actions to engineering, manufacturing, service and field operations and supplier performance
• Develop statistically sound sampling plans and perform data analysis
• Understand and help implement global processes of the QMS related to Design Controls
• Work with product development teams and other QEs to assure compliance to the QMS
• Analyze complaint data, post market surveillance and risk analysis to assist in the identification of potential product improvements based on sound engineering principles.
• Participate in Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) and QMS continuous improvement projects as they relate to Design Assurance and Complaint Review Board Process

Background required for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field, plus a minimum of 2-4 years of related experience in the medical device or another regulated industry
• Expert understanding of appropriate global medical device regulations, requirements and standards, including Quality Management System (ISO 13485) and Medical Device Regulations (21 CFR 820) is a must
• Project Management (development of project plans, status meetings, project reporting, etc.) and organizational change movement
• Ability to analyze information and come to conclusions based on presented data
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Self-motivated and ability to manage time working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated competency in computer skills: MS office applications, query tools, and enterprise database systems, Service Max and Agile is a plus
• Must be able to communicate appropriately and adequately to all management levels, including group presentation experience

This job description is not all inclusive and is intended to capture a majority of the job functions.  Special projects and other tasks may be required by management.