Position Description

Manager, Design Assurance and Regulatory
Location St. Paul, MN
Division
Employment duration Full time
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Exceptional People. Hard Problems. Meaningful Careers. Big Impact.

Nowhere else can you touch as many life-changing medical technologies. At Minnetronix Medical, we work side by side with more than 100 medical device companies from startups to global giants to bring life-enhancing technologies to market. Working with us means solving hard problems with extraordinary people in a collaborative work environment. Join us.

Manager, Design Assurance and Regulatory

Job Summary:

The Manager Design Assurance and Regulatory will be responsible for leading the design assurance team that navigates the medical device regulatory environment to develop and launch life impacting medical devices.  They will also be the leading voice inside the company and to customers on medical device regulatory perspectives and strategies.
The Manager reports to the VP Engineering and Quality and along with the Operations Quality Manager and the QMS Manager will be a part of the Minnetronix Quality Leadership team.
The Manager will help drive functional excellence in alignment with Minnetronix Key Technology Segment needs by providing leadership, management, and career development for team members within the group.  They will be part of the Development Engineering team and will have responsibility for the business performance, meeting financial objectives, and ensuring customer and employee satisfaction. This role is a player-coach position that will also be responsible for Design Assurance team deliverables and direct customer project work.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

•    Team Leadership
•    Lead and manage design assurance engineers who work on cross-functional teams to develop, verify, document and transfer to manufacturing our customer’s medical devices.
•    Lead and support customers and teams with input on applicable medical device regulations, agencies, and strategies.
•    Provide career development and coaching, define individual and team goals, and maintain performance-based goals 
•    Develop workforce & resource assessments for annual operating plan and forward-looking strategic plans to ensure that the DQE group is structured, resourced, trained and staffed to meet needs.
•    Collaborates within product development to effectively staff teams.
•    Stakeholder Maintenance 
•    Assists Business Development by meeting with potential new customers and providing input and support on proposals as requested
•    Communicates regulatory and design assurance information to non-technical stakeholders and customers while evaluating ongoing customer needs and expectations. 
•    Effective Delivery
•    Ensure project deliverables are met with timeliness, budget adherence, and quality. 
•    Helps to create and oversee project estimates and engages in cost management strategies.
•    Design Assurance Engineering
•    Responsible for creating Design Verification Plan, Risk Management Plan and report, and Compliance Reports  
•    Audit Test Execution Management, Device Testing, Dry Run Status, Stage Build Process Compliance, and Safety/EMC Test Reports  
•    May assist in the execution of verification test procedures.  
•    Ensuring verification configurations tested are production equivalent.  
•    Review/Approve regression analysis, Trace Matrix, ECOs, DBRs, DV Tool Qualifications, Test Procedures  
•    Participates/Approves in development of requirements, technical Reviews, test report development, design transfer coordination/support and FMEA, DFMEA development.  
•    Participates in project/customer meetings and Phase Reviews (Phase 1, 2, and 3)  
•    Monitor project activities to ensure following Minnetronix Standard Operating Procedures and Best Practices.

Qualifications:

•    Bachelor of Science or similar required. Master of Science preferred.
•    Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with at least 5 years of leadership experience in medical device development required.
•    Demonstrated leadership behaviors including effective communication, critical thinking and decision making, and promoting a sense of urgency for reaching goals. 
•    Experience working in regulated environments such as FDA QSR’s, ISO 13485, and/or ISO 9001
•    Experience with IEC 60601 and 60529 for the development and associated compliance testing of medical electrical equipment preferred
•    Experience with all phases of new product development, from concept through commercialization preferred 

Working Conditions and Requirements:

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States


Unity

We work hard and work together towards a common goal.
We put aside narrow interests to pursue the best outcomes for the company.

Humility

We aspire to collective excellence and know the sum is greater than the parts.
We own our successes and our failures and believe in growth through self-improvement.

Courage

We listen, learn and know when to make tough decisions. 
We step up and step in, always. 
We move out of our comfort zone in order to do what’s right and not just what’s easy.
We lead change effectively, operate with integrity and hold ourselves accountable.

Drive

We are driven to improve life for patients.
We relentlessly create and deliver value for our customers.
We constantly challenge ourselves to improve our thinking and our doing.

EEO Statement

Minnetronix, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

 

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