Operations Quality Assurance Lead
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The Operations Quality Assurance Lead oversees quality processes, governance, metrics, audits, and improvement initiatives, while managing QA engineers and supporting new product introduction. The role coordinates nonconformance and corrective-action activities, complaint investigations, quality plans, and production-process changes. It also serves as the QA Manager’s delegate when required. Candidates need a relevant bachelor’s degree, substantial quality and leadership experience, and fluent English.
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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance
At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.
Job Purpose:
- Lead NCEP, CAPA, PIRE/PIR processes and mentoring
- Lead QA Management Review, quality metrics and governance
- Drive major quality, compliance and improvement initiatives
- Support QA priorities, escalations and cross-functional quality activities
- Act as QA Manager delegate when required
Responsibilties:
- Manage of QA engineers
- Lead and coordinate NCEP, eCAPA, PIRE and PIR activities, including recurring reviews and timely completion of QA actions
- Lead OPS QA Management Review, including data collection, analysis and KPI definition/adjustment
- Lead QA task forces and quality improvement initiatives
- Lead 2nd and 3rd Tier Quality meetings, including agenda preparation and follow-up
- Support special projects and lead QA activities for NPI
- Serve as Service & Field Complaints POC, assign investigation owners and ensure feedback to relevant stakeholders
- Create and maintain Quality Plans (QPTP) and QSPD, as applicable
- Lead ZRD Special WKO activities for new and modified production processes
- Lead periodic QA SOP review and maintenance
- Lead OPS QA internal/external audit readiness and facilitation
- Act as QA Manager delegate, when required
Required Qualifications:
- BSc degree in Quality/Statistics/Biomedical/Mechanical/Electronic/Biotechnology Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant Quality experience in Medical Devices/Defense/Aviation industry
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Quality leadership or management role
- Experience with multidisciplinary products
- Strong knowledge of nonconformance management, process validation, risk management, V&V, and transfer to production
- Knowledge of statistical techniques and experience in data analysis and presentation
- Experience with ERP systems, such as SAP
- Strong multitasking, prioritization, and results-oriented skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Fluent English, both written and spoken
Requisition ID: 637318
Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$86–130K/yr94 salary ranges
- Illinois median$22–27/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 143 open Quality Assurance jobs in Illinois and 5,063 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,880 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,733 of the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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