Senior Quality Applications Specialist

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role

Join MiniMed as a Sr Quality Applications Specialist and play a hands-on role in keeping our medical device manufacturing operations compliant, efficient, and patient-focused. You'll tackle nonconformances, drive investigations, support document control, and partner cross-functionally to resolve issues at the source — all in a regulated environment where quality truly matters.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Conducts a compliant validation process for quality information technology systems which requires formal validation documentation (including standard operating procedures) under appropriate federal regulations.
• Coordinates activities with clients, programmers/developers and operating personnel, domestic and, as appropriate, global.
• Identifies current and anticipated requirements for compliant computerized operations and suggests methods for the identification, implementation and maintenance of the procedures, actions and documentation necessary to assure compliance according to the appropriate federal and international regulations which govern the user's applications.
• Reports on the status of validation activities to fulfill regulatory requirements.
• Keeps abreast of changing federal and international regulatory requirements, government audit policies, and the availability of current techniques.
• Performs system administration and configuration of quality information technology systems.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements  

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume. 

• Requires Bachelor Degree 
• Requires minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Risk management documentation: pFMEAs
• Basic knowledge in statistics (preferably using Minitab)
• Basic knowledge in designing validation strategies (e.g requirements flow down from design to manufacturing)
• Experience investigating manufacturing operations events in support for product disposition
• Experience assessing and tracing manufacturing defects/rejects trends
• Perform and/or review process validation (not cleaning processes) and equipment documents: URS, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, TMV (not laboratory)
• Knowledge in Medical Devices regulations
• Experience with projects: design requirements validation, manufacturing controls

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package

At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Short Term Incentive (STI).

MiniMed Benefits Overview

About MiniMed

MiniMed is a full-stack insulin delivery company dedicated to supporting people living with diabetes through every step of their journey — when and how they need it. For more than 40 years, we’ve been committed to redefining what’s possible: intelligent dosing systems designed for real life, predictive insights that stay a step ahead, and always on support when it’s needed most. At the heart of everything we do is a simple Mission: to make every day a better day for people with diabetes.

Learn more about our business, and our mission here.

It is the policy of MiniMed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, MiniMed will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for MiniMed in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which MiniMed reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. MiniMed will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.