Staff Engineer, Quality Design Assurance
CH–Neuchâtel–Le Locle, Vacancy ID JR-4256

Integra LifeSciences is a global medical technology leader in neurosurgery and regenerative medicine driven by our purpose of restoring patients’ lives. The company offers a broad portfolio of products and innovative solutions for dural access and repair, cerebral spinal fluid management and neuro-critical care. Its regenerative tissue technologies include products that address soft tissue, peripheral nerve and tendon repairs and for the treatment of acute and chronic wounds, burns, as well as for plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Founded in 1989 by Richard E. Caruso, the company is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Today, Integra LifeSciences has grown immensely, with more than 4200 employees worldwide as well as offices, manufacturing and research facilities in Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and the Americas.
Changing lives. Building Careers.
Joining us is a chance for you to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, more than 4,000 of us are challenging what’s possible and making headway to help improve outcomes.
This is a key functional role within the Design and Reliability Assurance Engineering team. The role involves the process of planning, organizing, leading and reporting all risk management activities through collaboration with cross functional teams. This role is responsible to also lead and coordinate process, practice, procedures and technology adoption for the continuous improvement of risk management work product and deliverables for projects and programs.
The role is also responsible for support of New Product Development (NPD), Sustaining Engineering and Continuous Improvement projects of varying scope and complexity. This individual will collaborate with internal customers and external design and development partners, participating on cross-functional project teams through all phases of the product and process development through commercialization, and support technical teams with planning, execution, reporting and communication of Design and Reliability Assurance work products and deliverables.
Responsibilities
• Provide Risk Management and Human Factors leadership, expertise, guidance and supervision during all project phases from initiation through end of life.
• Development of efficient and robust processes, procedures, practice, tools and technology to support continuous improvement in risk management.
• Leads development and implementation of key performance indicators (KPI’s) and metrics for the risk management process and metrics.
• Leads and conducts SWAT assessments in risk management to support continuous improvement across business processes
Lead the process of planning, organizing, leading and reporting all risk management activities through collaboration with cross functional teams.
• Lead and support New Product Development (NPD), Sustaining Engineering and Continuous Improvement projects of varying scope and complexity.
• Collaborates with internal customers and external design and development partners, participating on cross-functional project teams through all phases of the product and process development through commercialization, and supports technical teams with planning, execution, reporting and communication of Design and Reliability Assurance work products and deliverables.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Systems, Chemical or Electrical) or Science (Biology, Chemistry).
• 8 years of experience of working within a Medical device or other regulated industry with knowledge of Risk Management (ISO 14971 2019), MDD (Medical Device Directive), IEC 62366, ISO 13485 (Quality Management Systems), FDA QSR and cGMP.
• Strong analytical skills and a working knowledge of problem-solving methodologies
• Working knowledge of DFSS techniques
• 8 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role for medical device or pharmaceutical product development
• Fluent in French and English
• Knowledge of industry best practices and advances in Risk Management practices, process, tools and technology
• Demonstrates excellent knowledge of statistical sampling and analysis tools/methods to support data-driven decision making
• Demonstrates excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills • Proficient with the MS Office Suite, and statistical software.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Able to prioritize projects and manage assigned Design Assurance resources to meet organizational goals and objectives
We are proud of our 25 year heritage as a leader in regenerative medicine. Today, our scientific innovation and diverse product portfolio continue to help patients and surgeons around the world.
We have an entrepreneurial, small company feel, yet deliver big company results. Your ideas – big and small – are welcome here. We embrace change and reward our people who are committed to making Integra a stronger company.
We believe how we do things is as important as what we do. Our Values guide how we work and how we act towards our customers, patients and each other every day. We value Our People, Integrity, Excellence, Embracing Change, Decisiveness and Teamwork.