Hardware Quality Assurance & Regulations Manager

HP AM HWQA & Regulations Manager

Description -

In HP Additive Manufacturing (HPAM), one of HP’s most exciting and growing businesses, we are looking for a HWQA & Regulations Manager.  This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of engineers that will shape the path on next-generation industrial Additive Manufacturing printing platforms, to transform how products are designed and produced worldwide.

We are looking for highly skilled, experienced, and motivated candidates, who are curious, able to work across borders and without limits, and who possess the passion to help shape the future of the Additive Manufacturing industry.

In this dynamic position, you will be responsible for the definition and execution of the strategy for the HP AM Division in the Hardware Quality Assurance and Regulations areas.

The extent of this role covers both new product development and current business dynamics. This position plays a critical role in ensuring our products meet HW Quality, cybersecurity, regulatory, safety, and compliance expectations across the full product lifecycle, while enabling the business to move with speed, rigor, and customer focus.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The candidate will have three main areas of responsibility: drive NPI readiness from a HWQA and Regulatory standpoint, manage the Current Products Support for new HW changes from the regulatory and HWQA standpoint, and execute the corresponding People Management and development duties. The scope will cover all relevant HP AM business areas and product lines in all businesses; Polymers, Metals and FDM.

The descriptions of these responsibilities are:

1. Quality and Regulations during New Product Development:

• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our product HW quality and regulatory management systems, maximizing risk coverage and compliance readiness while optimizing execution efficiency.

• Lead the team responsible for defining and driving the Quality assurance and regulatory compliance strategy for Hardware and product-related requirements across our HPAM portfolio. The team collaborates closely with R&D, Product Management, Operations, Procurement, and other engineering disciplines from early program phases to product stabilization, ensuring our products deliver superior quality and meet all applicable regulatory and compliance expectations.

• Own the final regulatory accountability for NPI products introduced to the market, ensuring compliance readiness and signature of the Declaration of Conformity where applicable.

• Strong strategic perspective to anticipate and influence external trends, evolving regulatory requirements, and new technologies, and to take the appropriate actions in the interest of the Business.

• Ensure goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with program and organizational roadmaps; submit proposal for realignment of goals and budget if needed.

• Manage relationships with outsourced partners and suppliers, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs.

Key areas of responsibility in this environment are:

• Successful delivery of active programs according to schedule in terms of hardware quality readiness, product compliance, and regulatory risk management.

• Drive program convergence along the program schedule, based on the PLC, ensuring quality and regulatory risks are identified early, tracked appropriately, and addressed at the right checkpoints. Define and track metrics that ensure readiness and report progress regularly in program forums.

• Influence R&D on Quality in Design and Design for Compliance guidelines. Ensure optimal implementation of requirements in terms of product features, reliability, safety, regulatory obligations, and qualification effort, adapted to the scope of each program.

• Lead the team’s participation in design reviews, risk assessments, and program reviews to ensure early identification of product weaknesses, compliance gaps, and critical risk areas.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the right validation, qualification, documentation, and evidence are in place to support product launches in relevant markets.

2. Current Products management:

• Once the product or solution is introduced into the marketplace, the team has an active engagement with Current Products engineering disciplines, Operations, Procurement, Customer Assurance, and other stakeholders to contribute to product stabilization, compliance sustainment, AoS, management of field issues, and resolution of unexpected product weaknesses or customer dissatisfiers.

• Ensure continued alignment with applicable regulatory, safety, and quality requirements throughout the product lifecycle, including changes, sustaining activities, and issue resolution.

3. People management & development:

• As HWQA & Regulations Manager, you will lead and grow a team of engineers specialized in hardware quality, product compliance, regulatory requirements, risk management, validation, and qualification activities.

• Manager will lead a highly capable team to deliver all expected results with a high level of engagement while promoting the professional growth of team members.

• Foster a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and high-quality execution across both quality and regulatory disciplines.

Job Requirements:

This position demands a combination of technical, business, and people management skills. It is needed to have a good understanding and relevant experience in HP’s printing technology and product development cycles, while balancing people leadership and management aspects. The candidate will strongly interact with several HPAM organizations and engage with other HP businesses when appropriate.

• Leadership: A person who has natural leadership attributes, already recognized as a leader in his/her organization. Ability to lead a team through complex and stressful situations and inspire them. Previous experience as people manager or team leader will be greatly valued.
• Business acumen: Proven experience managing projects, priorities, and business processes with strong judgment on risk, impact, and execution trade-offs. MBA or similar business education will be a plus.

• Customer-centric approach: Fully understands customer perception and works toward improving customer experience in real operating environments.

• Results oriented: Focus on execution to deliver results, with a pragmatic approach and emphasis on removing roadblocks so the team can be effective.

• Solid technical background: Engineering degree, with more than 7 years of applicable work experience in Printing Technologies, Hardware Quality, Regulatory/Compliance, or a similar technological environment.

• Regulatory and quality expertise: Experience in quality processes, product qualification, compliance readiness, risk assessment, and working across cross-functional product development environments.

•Excellent communicator: Given the specific nature of this position, strong communication and influencing skills are essential. Fluent English required (advanced level).

• Strategic thinking: Ability to define long-term needs and priorities for the team and align them with evolving business needs.

• Collaborative mindset: Ability to have discussions in a constructive way and collaborate effectively with other teams and organizations, even when not sharing same opinions.

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Engineering

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Full time

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No shift premium (Spain)

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Relocation -

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