Job Description

As the Lead Quality Engineer, you be will responsible for providing manufacturing and/or engineering process support in accordance with documented procedures and practices. This is a key technical role responsible for the development, implementation, improvement, and continuous reinforcement of established Quality Management System (QMS) practices, product specifications, and applicable standards. You will collaborate across design, design transfer, manufacturing, distribution, and service functions.
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference and every difference builds a healthier world.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Creates a quality-focused culture by driving compliance activities across a specific product, site, or region. This includes ownership of the Quality Management System for the business and driving quality metrics.
• Ensures quality and regulatory compliance while improving process effectiveness and efficiency through the implementation of lean processes and standard work.
• Represents GE HealthCare to external agencies and champions the evolution of the quality culture, including executing and driving quality objectives, metrics, reporting, and operating mechanisms.
• Serves as a best practice and quality resource; contributes to strategy and process development, and ensures delivery within the area of responsibility.
• Acts as a skilled influencer, able to communicate complex messages effectively. Collaborates with Quality teams and internal stakeholders; may lead projects with moderate risk and resource requirements.
• Uses sound judgment to make decisions and solve moderately complex problems. Applies technical expertise and data analysis to support recommendations and drive solutions.
• Leads process efficiency and compliance initiatives through the development and implementation of equipment qualification and process validation activities, including:
  • Master Validation Plans (site-level)
  • Validation Master Plans (product- or process-specific)
  • Detailed process flow diagrams outlining inputs, outputs, risks, and interdependencies
    Utilizes risk management tools, including but not limited to pFMEA and dFMEA.
• Supports continuous product and process improvement through detailed failure analysis of nonconformances. Investigates, develops, and implements effective, compliant solutions, including corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), remediation plans, and retrospective actions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience in medical devices or a similar regulated industry
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in a regulated industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and databases)

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated understanding of medical device QMS and regulatory requirements, including but not limited to FDA 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485
• Experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Design Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering within a regulated industry
• Proven ability to communicate effectively across functions and organizational levels on QMS concepts, including Production and Process Controls, CAPA, Risk Management, and Product Quality
• Strong collaboration, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Experience conducting internal audits and supporting external audits
• Understanding of design change, document control, and manufacturing/process change control methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills, with demonstrated experience leading and implementing change
• Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Strong technical aptitude, including the ability to read and interpret technical documentation and provide actionable feedback

Company Culture

We expect all employees to live and embody our core behaviors: acting with humility, building trust, leading with transparency, delivering with focus, and driving ownership—always with unyielding integrity.

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by providing the support and flexibility needed to turn ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits package reflects the strength and scale of a global organization, and you will be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No