Quality Coordinator - Element Materials Technology

Element has an opportunity for an experienced Quality Coordinator to join our team of quality professionals. You are an essential member of the quality team and will assist to ensure that the Element Quality Management System (QMS) is managed/maintained. The successful candidate will have experience of the accreditation requirements associated with accreditation bodies.

The Quality Coordinator is responsible for ensuring compliance with new and existing quality standards and regulations, implementing quality management systems actions, and contributing to the development of company policies and procedures. The Quality Coordinator provides quality support to the laboratory.

Salary: $60-70K / year

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with current regulations
• Monitoring and reporting on all quality activities, processes, and procedures
• Developing internal auditing tools, conducting internal audits and reports
• Implementing quality improvement plans for customer complaints and corrective action
• Perform/manage regular reviews (proficiency testing and method audits) to ensure employees comply
• with the quality policies
• Assisting with the development of laboratories policies, processes, and procedures
• Providing departments with quality planning and support
• Conducting or assisting with regulatory and quality training sessions
• Preparing and maintaining quality management documentation
• Monitor, schedule, and manage calibration equipment activities at the site level
• Prepare monthly reports including, but not limited to KPi First Time Right (FTR), incidents (CAPA and customer complaints), audits, etc.
• Assisting the Quality Manager in other duties, as assigned
• This position reports directly to the Quality Director, and dotted line (quality support) to the General Manager at the site level

• Degree in a related field preferred
• Experience with ISO 17025 (or ISO 9001) and Quality System rules, regulations, including planning and implementation
•  Minimum 2 years of experience working with quality management systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS)
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and public speaking skills
• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills

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Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

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. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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