As a Quality Systems Specialist, you will contribute in the following areas:
- Champion continuous improvement efforts within the Quality Management System (QMS) team
- Attain a comprehensive understanding of DEKA's products and processes, leveraging this knowledge to drive improvements within the QMS
- Facilitate and drive change management processes by developing and revising Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs):
- Make red-line changes, Process ECOs, Archive and distribute documents
- Track ECO impacts to completion, including training for QMS documents
- Support collection and trending of QMS data
- Support external and internal audits
- Promote QMS awareness to departments throughout DEKA
- Review and approve quality records to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements
As a key contributor to our team, the following skills are required:
- Aptitude for Learning: Ability to comprehend and apply learn a variety of processes
- Effective Communication: Ability to articulate problems and solutions with clarity and precision to a diverse, cross-functional team with varying levels of technical aptitude
- Project Coordination/Management: Skilled in planning, executing, and managing projects with varying timelines
- Problem Solving: Embrace challenges and find creative solutions
- Collaboration: Effectively collaborate with various teams and departments, sharing ideas, taking initiative and proactively contribute to achieve common objectives. Work to maintain a positive attitude, fostering a supportive and productive work environment
- Attention to Detail: Display exceptional accuracy and precision in all tasks
- Reliability: Consistently delivering high-quality work and demonstrating dedication to your role
- Excellent at utilizing or the ability to quickly learn applications, including Excel, Word, and Visio
Required Training / Knowledge:
- Must have a BS degree in Engineering or Science degree/background
- 1+ years experience administrating a process within a database
- 2+ years experience in a customer centric environment
- Preferred experience 2+ years’ experience in QMS or document centric environment
- Strong written/verbal communication skills
- Must have strong attention to detail
- Strong presentation skills (Experience with developing and presenting to management or cross functional teams)
- Excel, Word, Visio skills
- Project coordination/management skills
- Aptitude for learning technical information
About DEKA:
One hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development, where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKA’s brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. Here at DEKA, some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created, and new ideas are always welcome and explored.
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What We Do
DEKA is one of the leading research and development companies in the country and is the birthplace of some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time. For over thirty years, DEKA Research & Development Corp. has made Manchester, New Hampshire home. Located about an hour from Boston, the beach, and the mountains, we are situated in the beautiful and historic Amoskeag Millyard buildings located in downtown Manchester.
DEKA continues to be a place where no idea seems too big and where creativity and crazy cool gizmos reign supreme. The engineers, technicians, machinists, designers and all of the other folks who make up DEKA are some of the most creative and innovative professionals you could ever hope to meet. It's a place where one crazy idea can end up being the next greatest invention. At DEKA we embrace the spirit of innovation and constantly aim to turn the impossible into a reality.
DEKA is filled with people who are driven to be among the best and brightest in their field of work. It’s a concentrated bunch of really smart thinkers, doers and problems solvers, who are driven to using innovative design solutions and state-of-the-art technology to improve lives. We all see endless possibilities in the power of technology to do good. Employees have the opportunity to work on diverse projects that have a positive, enduring impact on millions of people worldwide. We are growing! We're always seeking passionate individuals to join our growing team of evolved thinkers.
