QA Manager

Barco designs technology that makes everyday life a little better. Seeing beyond the image, we develop sight, sound, and sharing solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). Our solutions make a visible impact, allowing people to enjoy compelling entertainment experiences; to foster knowledge sharing and smart decision-making in organizations and to help hospitals provide their patients with the best possible healthcare. Headquartered in Kortrijk (Belgium), Barco realized sales of 804 million euro in 2021 and has a global team of 3,000+ employees, whose passion for technology is captured in +500 granted patents.

Is Quality your motto? Do you want to collaborate with various departments to maintain a strong quality process and quality standard?

Within our site we are looking for a Quality Manager to join our team!
The ISO9001-ISO 13485-ISO14001 quality management systems of Barco, ensuring the systems meet the need of the business and comply with all the applicable standards and regulations

Your responsibilities:
 

• Ensure the promotion and awareness of applicable regulatory and QMS requirements throughout the organization

• Coordinate with the process owners and relevant teams for consistent Quality Policy execution.

• Maintain and continuously improve the quality management system in line with the business needs, based on evaluation of quality results, quality KPI and quality systems outcome, and compliant with the required standards and regulations for that region and/or division.

• Report on the performance, effectiveness and improvement needs of the QMS to top management.

• Define and follow up on the Quality plan and Objectives and maintaining the Quality dashboard

• Host Quality and Regulatory Management Reviews

• Act as Management Representative

• Support the organization to plan and coordinate external certification and customer audits, conduct internal audits and define required corrections, corrective and preventive actions to monitor the progress.

• To participate in NPI projects as Quality delegate and acts as Quality gatekeeper in NPI stage gate review meetings

• Has the authority to

  • withdraw non-conforming products

  • set / release production or delivery holds

  • sign off CoCs (beyond CoC of manufactured products) and derogations

Your Profile:

• At least 7 years of experience in QA\QMS management and at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Profound understanding of QMS, ISO requirements (ISO9001, ISO13485, ISO14971, IEC62304, IEC62366,...) and regulatory to maintain business quality certifications
• Certification training for quality management systems internal auditor and experience in internal auditing against QMS
• Experience in coordination of external audits (certification bodies, customers, local authorities)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, listening skills and able to cope with stressful situations
• Solution directed and E2E continuous improvement attitude.
• Sound judgment and high level of integrity and ethics
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills; demonstrated ability to motivate others, work as a team and take ownership where required.
• Excellent tactical and strategic thinking
• Analytical, investigative and decision-making skills
• Ability to deal with and manage a diverse and demanding workload

Our offer:

• A competitive salary package with fringe benefits such as a health and group insurance, canteen, bonus perfomance system...
• An interesting, challenging job with lots of autonomy.
• The opportunity to work for an international market leader where innovation does matter.
• Internal training in our Barco University
• A modern and state of the art working environment