Quality Assurance Specialist
Apply NowCompany: CivicMinds, Inc.
Location: Simi Valley, CA 93065
Description:
Job Role: Sr. Quality Assurance
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Duties may change at any time. Other duties may be assigned as needed.
Competencies & Requirements:
Featured benefits
Employer-provided
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Handle relations and communications with factories in China.
- Provide oversight of projects to deliver strategies and techniques ensuring all products entering the market do so with consistent and comparable high levels of quality.
- Developing reports documenting any problems or potential future issues in the quality of products and create a plan of action regarding how to remediate and address these difficulties.
- Support the development and implementation of improved quality reporting measures as well as supporting quality related customer complaint investigations.
- Provide continuous direction to ensure quality requirements are integrated into product development and the commercialization processes effectively and efficiently.
- Review product labeling and ensure accurate content in compliance with current legal guidelines.
- Develop strategic solutions and ideas, drive advancement of processes, procedures, and projects.
- Determine quality assurance policies and objectives to improve work processes and efficiency.
- Carry out annual product reviews, identify opportunities for continuous improvement and implement same in partnership with operations.
- Utilize 3rd party laboratories to conduct Good Manufacturing Practices and Code of Conduct audits to ensure compliance.
- Maintain and manage various overseas factory audits for compliance.
- Write and manage the implementation of corrective action plans with factories.
- Identifying short-term and long-range issues; researching and identifying applicable regulatory and industry compliance standards and codes; developing compliance policies.
- Develop compliance plans by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying compliance concepts, approaches, techniques, and criteria; qualifying vendors.
- Organize compliance programs by preparing timetables, required resources, including testing laboratories.
- Determine compliance by measuring performance; analyzing and evaluating findings; performing forensic analysis of failures.
- Prepare reports on fluctuating exchange rates and raw material costs and perform analysis on how they affect cost.
Duties may change at any time. Other duties may be assigned as needed.
Competencies & Requirements:
- The ability to manage multiple competing projects / priorities and complete them on time.
- Experience using NetSuite, Microsoft Office products, Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
- Must be well versed in Excel including using formulas, creating templates, and forecasting.
- A keen eye for detail and follow through as well as demonstrate proficiency of written and verbal communication skills; a good decision maker who can work autonomously.
- The ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including senior staff, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Legal Counsel, manufacturing partners and overseas manufacturing plants.
- Bachelor of Science degree preferred or 3-5 years of related work experience preferably in consumer product goods.
Featured benefits
Employer-provided
- Medical insurance
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance