What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Manager position at Azenta Life Sciences?
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Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.
How You’ll Add Value
The Quality Assurance Manager provides QMS direction and support to ensure a consistent and compliant approach to Quality System implementation. This position reports on the performance of the Quality System to senior leadership and implements required improvements to continuously improve the Quality System. The Quality Assurance Manager manages a quality team who are responsible for support of Quality System management and improvement at the Indianapolis and Plainfield locations.
What You’ll Do
Sets goals for performance, monitors employee productivity, provides constructive feedback and coaching. Schedules, facilitates, and responds to client audits. Develops relationships with targeted clients. Oversees internal audit program, conducts regular internal facility audits to ensure compliance to QMS. Facilitates alignment of QMS and quality activities across company locations and departments to ensure adherence to Azenta Life Science Services quality standards. Manages Management Review program for the SRS business unit. Oversees metrics program for the Sample Storage, Sample Sourcing and Transportation businesses globally. Drives continuous improvement activities based on data from quality measuring and monitoring activities such as audit findings, customer feedback, deviations, non-conformance, etc.
Your Management Responsibilities
Hiring & Staffing
Azenta Life Sciences is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Azenta Life Sciences participates in E-Verify®, and will provide the United States Federal Government with your form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the United States. For more information, please visit E-Verify® at www.dhs.gov/E-Verify. E-Verify® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.
How You’ll Add Value
The Quality Assurance Manager provides QMS direction and support to ensure a consistent and compliant approach to Quality System implementation. This position reports on the performance of the Quality System to senior leadership and implements required improvements to continuously improve the Quality System. The Quality Assurance Manager manages a quality team who are responsible for support of Quality System management and improvement at the Indianapolis and Plainfield locations.
What You’ll Do
Sets goals for performance, monitors employee productivity, provides constructive feedback and coaching. Schedules, facilitates, and responds to client audits. Develops relationships with targeted clients. Oversees internal audit program, conducts regular internal facility audits to ensure compliance to QMS. Facilitates alignment of QMS and quality activities across company locations and departments to ensure adherence to Azenta Life Science Services quality standards. Manages Management Review program for the SRS business unit. Oversees metrics program for the Sample Storage, Sample Sourcing and Transportation businesses globally. Drives continuous improvement activities based on data from quality measuring and monitoring activities such as audit findings, customer feedback, deviations, non-conformance, etc.
Your Management Responsibilities
Hiring & Staffing
- Skills assessment
- Resource planning
- Competency based, quality hiring
- Effective on-boarding
- Constructive conflict
- Appropriate follow-up
- Holds self and other accountable
- Builds relationships & partners across-functions
- Considers and communicates cross-functionally
- Regular meaningful communications
- Connection of department & individual purpose to strategic direction
- Follow-up to address obstacles
- Reinforce behaviors that drive results
- Assess -right person in the right job
- Feedback/coaching
- Raising the bar; increasing contribution
- Address misaligned or misplaced talent
- Dialogue about skills & behaviors for success
- Understanding employee aspirations
- Opportunities for experiential learning & growth
- Experience planning & delegate to develop
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 4 years of Quality Assurance related work experience required. Life sciences preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of quality systems and how quality systems are designed and operated to satisfy regulatory requirements.
- Minimum of 2 years managerial experience
- Onsite - Indianapolis (aligned to company policy 4 days in office)
- Employee may be working on an area with potentially infectious materials.
Azenta Life Sciences is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do our utmost to ensure that there is no discrimination or bias against anyone applying for a job or in any phase of employment for reasons related to race, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, genetic information, or gender identity.
Azenta Life Sciences participates in E-Verify®, and will provide the United States Federal Government with your form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the United States. For more information, please visit E-Verify® at www.dhs.gov/E-Verify. E-Verify® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
