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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Ensure the quality of our life saving products is your mission. As Quality Systems Specialist, you are responsible of the quality of our products and compliance of our processes. At the Swiss Medtronic Operations (SMO) site, we manufacture more than half of the defibrillators implanted worldwide. Our production site has a big impact on our patient’s lives. You will have great opportunities to interact with broad cross-functional groups within our manufacturing site or with sister manufacturing sites.

As Quality Systems Specialist, you will be working with highly motivated team members in a dynamic work environment. You will act as a partner of the different departments: production, engineering, development, quality, and business platforms. The position is based in Tolochenaz, Vaud and is an on-site position (maximum one day work from home per week).

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Is the Subject Matter Expert for their Quality Systems such as Change Control, CAPA, documentation, audit and/or training.

• Leads local initiatives and contributes to global continuous improvement initiatives such as First Time Quality, Put Patient First or Quality Management System simplification.

• Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes, and procedures that ensure compliance with policies and that the performance and quality of services conform to established internal and external standards and guidelines.

• Ensures process monitoring, reporting and improvement by providing leading KPIs for daily follow up and for Quality Management reviews.

• Presents and defends their process during notified bodies audits and regulatory authorities’ inspections. Leads for their Quality system audit and inspection preparation, resolution of audit and inspection findings.

• Collaborates with manufacturing, engineering, and development functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

• Trains stakeholders on their process.

• Assures in their daily work an overall compliance to ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820 and EU MDR

Required knowledge and experience

• Engineering bachelor’s degree minimum

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry, within a manufacturing site

• Minimum 2 years of quality experience

• Change control experience

• Fluent in French and English

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently

• A continuous improvement mindset

• Exhibits high degree of initiative and good judgment.

Root Cause investigations tools including DMAIC A3, 5 Whys, 6 M, Ishikawa Diagram and Pareto Charts, as well as project management experience would be a strong asset.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)

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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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