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You close findings properly. That is rarer than it should be.

Quality engineering, CAPA, complaints and supplier quality roles with device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, contract and permanent.

Why people in your role call us

Everyone claims CAPA experience. Few have closed one to effectiveness.

CAPA appears on almost every quality CV, which makes it useless as a screening term. What separates candidates is whether they have investigated to a genuine root cause, or whether they have documented a plausible one and moved on because the due date was approaching.

Clients feel this difference only later, when the same finding returns at the next audit and the effectiveness check turns out to have been a signature. By then the engagement is months old.

So we ask about a specific investigation, in detail. It is uncomfortable for about four minutes and it is the reason our submissions convert.

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What we place you into

The engagements we typically place quality engineers into.

01

CAPA and investigations

Root cause investigation through to demonstrated effectiveness.

02

Complaints and post-market

Intake, assessment and reportability decisions with the trail to support them.

03

Non-conformance and MRB

Disposition decisions and the evidence behind them.

04

Supplier quality

Supplier audits, qualification and corrective action management.

05

Design quality

Design controls, risk management and design transfer support.

06

Inspection readiness

Preparing a site or a system for an audit that is already scheduled.

What we ask you

The screen is technical, not a keyword match.

One investigation, in detail, tells us more than a CV.

  • A CAPA you owned end to end and what the effectiveness check actually measured
  • A root cause you initially got wrong and how you found out
  • How you decide reportability on a complaint that is genuinely ambiguous
  • Your experience of being audited rather than auditing
  • Which quality system you have worked in and what you would change about it

If you can answer those properly you will be represented accurately, which is most of what goes wrong elsewhere.

Rates and timelines

What you can expect.

Quality engineering rates vary by industry, by whether the role is site-based or corporate, and by how much design quality responsibility it carries. Device roles and pharma roles do not track each other.

We do not publish rate figures. What we do is tell you the client band before you interview, so you are not guessing what you are worth or discovering it at offer stage.

Typical time to first submission: Usually within a week; faster where a client has an audit date approaching.

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Questions

What quality engineers ask us.

Device or pharma?

Both, and they are different. Device quality carries design controls and risk management that pharma quality does not, and we screen for which you have actually done.

Is quality engineering work onsite?

Often, particularly site-based manufacturing quality. Corporate and design quality roles are more frequently hybrid.

Do you place quality managers and heads of quality?

Yes, including fractional arrangements for smaller organisations that cannot justify a full-time senior hire.

I have audit experience but not engineering. Where does that fit?

Auditing is its own track and we place it separately. Tell us which direction you want to move rather than letting the market decide for you.

How specific will your screening be?

Specific enough to be slightly uncomfortable. That is deliberate, and it is why clients trust the profiles we send.

Related

Where to go next.

Audit and inspection readiness

The service side of quality.

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Medical devices and IVD

Where most quality demand sits.

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Available now

Who we currently have available.

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