What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Manager position at AZENTA?
At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.
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
Collaboration
- Constructive conflict
- Appropriate follow-up
- Holds self and other accountable
- Builds relationships & partners across-functions
- Considers and communicates cross-functionally
Communication to Inspire & Empower
- Regular meaningful communications
- Connection of department & individual purpose to strategic direction
- Follow-up to address obstacles
Performance Management
- Reinforce behaviors that drive results
- Assess -right person in the right job
- Feedback/coaching
- Raising the bar; increasing contribution
- Address misaligned or misplaced talent
Develop People
- Dialogue about skills & behaviors for success
- Understanding employee aspirations
- Opportunities for experiential learning & growth
- Experience planning & delegate to develop
What You Will Bring
- 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
Your Working Conditions:
- Onsite - Indianapolis (aligned to company policy 4 days in office)
- Employee may be working on an area with potentially infectious materials.
EOE M/F/Disabled/VET
