Job Posting Start Date 03-01-2025 Job Posting End Date 04-21-2025

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Validation Senior Engineer located in Austin, TX.

Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Validation Senior Engineer will support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth. Responsible for process validations to ensure that the equipment used for medical device manufacturing process are appropriately developed, qualified to meet Flex’s internal policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.

What a typical day looks like:

Provide validation oversight on process validation and qualification activities to ensure compliance and recommend appropriate corrective actions as needed.Assure validation policies and procedures are implemented and followed for medical device manufacturing. Determine and establish requirements for qualification activities and lead all assigned qualification activities to completion.Suggests, debates alternative methods and procedures in solving problems to meet business needs.Make independent decisions related to qualification activities.Author / execute validation plans, protocols (IQ, OQ, TMV, and PQ protocol) and other validation deliverables to support equipment qualifications and re-qualification activities.Interface with customers on technical/quality issues and improvement initiatives.Responsible for managing regulatory/compliance agency/customer audits by acting as an SME for the respective area / business process.Reviews technical problems and procedures; recommends solutions to improve and streamline the existing quality system processes.Implement practices around validation controls for all manufacturing areas in line with applicable policies and procedures.Executes, manages validation and change control activities by authoring, reviewing and approving validation deliverables, including but not limited to validation plans, requirement test plans/protocols/results, risk assessments, traceability matrices, and summary reports.Monitor validation deliverables and activities for assigned area to ensure that regulations, protocols, procedures, and methodologies are followed, and that appropriate and complete documentation is captured and reported to support validation activities.Additionally required to support software or facilities validations as deemed necessary by business.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

Bachelor’s (in engineering, sciences or related field)6 years of validation experience.Prior process validation experience working in medical device, pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry with understanding of CFR Part 820, Part 11, ISO 13485, Annex 11, ISO9001, GAMP standards.Experience in generating, review and approval of validation deliverables, statistical analysis, risk management, incident and change management.Project management or software / facilities validation experience is a plus.Experience working in 24/7 operations environment strongly preferred.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

Full range of medical, dental, and vision plansLife InsuranceShort-term and Long-term DisabilityMatching 401(k) ContributionsVacation and Paid Sick TimeTuition ReimbursementJob CategoryDesign, Process & Technology Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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