Senior Quality Engineer, Global Design Management

Senior Quality Engineer, Global Design Management

Job Description

Senior Quality Engineer, Global Design Management

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You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

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Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

This position is for a Principal Quality Engineer to work enterprise-wide to lead all quality aspects of design management platform during development and throughout its life cycle which includes design, verification, validation, transfer to manufacturing/outsourcing, commercialization, changes and post-market activities.  These activities include, but are not limited to, leading quality aspects of the risk management files, design changes, product enhancements, material changes and process changes; investigation of non-conformances; ensuring compliance to quality system requirements; and support the qualification of new suppliers.



* Global thought leader for enterprise design management projects. Provide guidance, training and execution leadership for segmented project teams to achieve design management deliverables, specific deliverables related to product safety, quality, risk, performance and meeting consumer needs.


* Provide strategic future state leadership, through actively facilitating, participation in and/or coaching the development of deliverables required for new product development and product design changes, mentor for design review leadership.


* Effectively partner with K-C R&E and Supply Chain leaders to lead and implement strategies which promote the K-C Quality Culture throughout the product life cycle and end-to-end supply chain


* Demonstrate ability to actively support/lead multiple projects across different segments while providing training that transitions leadership and experiences to teams


* Utilization of Six Sigma, Lean and statistical based tools to drive unlock of unidentified value and process savings.  Leverage statistical knowledge to actively provide visibility and support qualification improvements.


* Direct product development experience demonstrating an understanding of major quality management processes and practices such as design controls, change control, product risk management, GMP standards, process controls, statistical quality control and product testing.


* Lead global product development teams in execution of Design Management Management standards.


* Contributes to the strategy development for Quality Management in Design Control, Design Transfer, Life Cycle Management (LCM), and Risk Management of Kimberly-Clark prod...