Quality Engineer - QMS

Quality Engineer - Quality Management System (QMS) – Aurora, CO Be a part of a revolutionary change! At Philip Morris International (PMI), we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, if you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our success depends on people who are committed to our purpose and have an appetite for progress. Your ‘day to day’: As a Quality Engineer, you will be part of our Quality Department and report to the Supervisor, Quality Assurance. Your role will be to ensure the development, improvement, and/or maintenance of local Quality Management System (QMS) with related procedures in alignment with QMS Compliance and Central Quality. • Define, establish, and maintain a Quality Management System. Coordinate and support the establishment of related procedures supporting good manufacturing practices and approve all procedures. Provide general quality management system training and coordinate quality related training. Support QMS compliance department in ensuring QMS efficacy, adherence, and compliance. Ensure that internal audits (self-inspections) including quality system audits and external audits are appropriately performed and corrective actions / preventive action (CAPA) identified, followed-up, and documented. • Investigate in a timely manner non-conformities and deviation, leveraging on lean problem-solving tools. Take the decision to quarantine the non-conforming material/products and liaise with interested parties to reveal the root cause and take relevant preventive/corrective actions. Ensure proper follow-up and reporting of open actions and maintain the related database up to date. Based on recommendations from stakeholders concerned, participate in the decision of releasing or destroying the non-conforming products blocked due to quality issues, and monitor the related costs. Ensure NC & CAPA processes are implemented, followed, and documented according to PMI standards. • Provide technical quality support and expertise to improve material, products, and quality performance. Ensure timely quality support in case of any quality problems encountered on products, providing quality risk assessment and an accurate action plan/solution that immediately mitigates impact on Quality and Production KPI's. • Establish and follow a system to identify, record, monitor, and evaluate internal or external quality complaints, and investigate and resolve critical deviations. • Ensure compliance to all PMI and legal standards, policies, and guidelines related to Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability to prevent personnel, asset, or societal loss. Who we’re looking for: • Bachelor’s degree preferred in Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, or relevant skills through demonstrated experience. • 3 or more years of experience in Quality Assurance in tobacco, food, pharmaceutical, or similar industry. • Advanced knowledge of International standards (ISO). • Experienced user of MS Office • Experience with project management. • Advanced knowledge of Quality tools, root cause analysis, analytical skills, and statistical tool knowledge. • Fluent in English • Legally authorized to work in the U.S. Annual Base Salary Range: $86,560-$119,020 Application deadline: 8/29/2024 What we offer: We offer employees a competitive base salary and the potential to receive a discretionary annual bonus. Employees (and their families) also have the option to enroll in our company medical, dental and vision plans. The company offers flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, as well as health savings accounts for those that choose to enroll in a high deductible health plan (HDHP). Employees are auto-enrolled in our company’s 401(k)/Deferred Profit Sharing (DPS) Plan, which provides for both annual 5% employer matching contribution and an annual employer contribution. As a new hire, you will enjoy an allotment of paid vacation time, paid sick time, 12 paid company holidays, and 3 paid floating holidays. We also provide our employees with paid parental leave, paid family and medical leave, paid bereavement leave, paid sick and safe time, paid public emergency leave, paid time off for jury duty, and paid time off for certain activities relating to their status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or crime. The company offers unpaid national guard and reserve leave, unpaid civil air patrol leave, unpaid qualified volunteer leave, and unpaid time off for employees engaging in certain activities relating to criminal proceedings. The company also provides basic life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and short-term and long-term disability insurance to employees at no cost. Employees have the option to purchase supplemental life and AD&D coverage for themselves, spouse, and dependent children. • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore. • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture where each team member’s contribution is valued; collaborate with some of the world’s best professionals and feel like you belong. • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our size and scale provide endless opportunities for growth. • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers. PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 2,300 employees. PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI’s affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company’s acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022.Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI’s IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match’s General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com.