STERIS is a leading provider of infection prevention and other procedural products and services. The company is focused primarily on healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device Customers. Our mission is to help our customers to create a healthier and a safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science products and services around the globe.
STERIS offers Customers a unique mix of innovative capital equipment products, such as sterilizers and washers, surgical tables, lights and equipment management systems, and connectivity solutions such as operating room integration; consumable products such as detergents and gastrointestinal endoscopy accessories, dental instruments, and other products; services, including equipment installation and maintenance, microbial reduction of medical devices, instrument and scope repair solutions, laboratory services and off-site reprocessing.
Founded as Innovative Medical Technologies in Ohio in 1985, the company was renamed STERIS in 1987. However, some of the businesses that have been acquired and integrated into STERIS, notably American Sterilizer Company, have much longer operating histories. We have approximately 16,000 Associates worldwide and operate in more than 100 countries.
STERIS FINN-AQUA`S Life Sciences manufacturing facility located in Tuusula which currently employs 180 professionals in engineering, finance, operations, marketing, quality, and information technology, along with a manufacturing/fabricating team is looking for new
QUALITY MANAGER
who will lead the Finland based Finn-Aqua Quality organization and team.
As a new Quality Manager, you are responsible for leading product quality improvement, problem-solving, and driving enhancement for STERIS Finn-Aqua manufacturing facility in Tuusula. You lead implementing and maintaining state-of-the-art quality practices for associated product and service lines. You assume the overall responsibility in ensuring that the site maintains operational and quality systems in a state of compliance to domestic and international standards. As a Quality Manager you are responsible that the organization, documentation, and maintenance of the quality system is compliant with, as appropriate, the following standards: IS0 9001, MDSAP and CFR Part 820/211, EU MDR, and other applicable standards. The new Quality Manager will start working in parallel with the current retiring QM. You report to the Senior Director, Quality, STERIS Corporation.
As a new Quality Manager
you will ensure that the unit complies with STERIS’s quality guidelines and operates in accordance with the quality certificates issued to the company. You evaluate the quality produced by the unit and provide the business with the quality tools best suited to each need. You can analyse data related to quality and find the essentials that support the business. You can see the broad entities – and outline how things affect each other and understand the interrelationship between cost and productivity and how these affect a profitable business.
You lead the STERIS Finn-Aqua´s Quality team to ensure alignment to manufacturing and servicing operations, support Lean efforts and drive quality improvement for products and services. You work closely with site senior management to provide strategic direction and development of the organization’s quality strategies and tactics. You have a sense of urgency to internal and external customers issues, and you have a proven ability and history for developing cross functional partnerships. You have excellent planning and organizing skills. You promote continuous improvements and innovations. You are an experienced leader with excellent leadership abilities. You can develop others and provide ongoing coaching to your team. You are an effective communicator with a skill to listen. You lead by integrity and reliability, and you believe in constant learning and personal development.
We expect you to have
- Manufacturing/Quality Engineering and/or Quality Systems experience 8 + years
- Medical device or other regulated industries preferred 8+ years
- Experience working in an ISO certified environment required 8+years
- Managing quality team (Engineers, Specialist, Techs, Inspectors), 5+years
- Good experience in manufacturing quality, supplier quality and new product development
- You fulfil the experience requirements listed in Article 15 of the EUMDR (PRRC), ASQ, QSR or familiarity with QSR/GMP regulations are preferred
- Bachelor’s degree, Engineering, or related technical field
- Excellent verbal and written skills in Finnish and English
- Fluent with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
We offer you
You are offered a competitive compensation package, free-time activities, own gym at site and an opportunity to build the future of life sciences product line with a team of professionals.
Our people are what make STERIS a great place to work. We appreciate our employees, we want them to develop, prosper and flourish with us. At STERIS you will become a part of a very successful international company, highly renowned for helping our customers to create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science products and service solutions around the globe.
We´d like to hear from you if you think you are the right candidate for this interesting job. Please submit your application via the link below including your CV and your salary request. For more information, please contact Senior Headhunters Heini Savio, gsm +358 50 322 3283 or Jarkko Huotari gsm +358 40 355 8677.
