Quality Assurance Associate

**Your Opportunity**:
A rare opportunity has arisen to appoint a **Quality Assurance Associate **to join our QARA team.

The Quality Associate is responsible for completion of activities that ensure the effectiveness of our Quality System. The role ensures implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of assigned aspects of the Quality system in line with internationally recognised standards and Olympus requirements. The role will work closely with the Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Service and Sale teams as well as Olympus customers, manufacturers and internal stakeholders to deliver.

**Key Deliverables and Areas of Responsibility**
- Management of department corrective and preventative (CAPA) actions and non-conformances (NCs).
- Partners with key stakeholders in Olympus Australia and New Zealand to deliver their CAPAs and NCs.
- Completion of internal audits of the quality system.
- Participation in external compliance inspections for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
- Reporting of metrics and maintenance of the QARA reporting dashboards.
- Maintain QARA documents including their creation, revision, review and publication.
- Ensure training record requirements are met.
- Train internal customers in their quality requirements.
- Participate in local and global QARA improvement initiatives and projects.
- Support other team members within the department as required.

**All about you**:
You will consider yourself to be an enthusiastic, self-starting person who has a passion for Quality and looking for an opportunity to learn more about the Quality and Regulatory function. You will be a results focused and adaptable individual that has;
- Demonstrated excellence in communication with customers or manufacturers.
- Self motivated and able to take initiative.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 or ISO 13485 compliance desirable.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Process, analysis and problem solving skills would be highly regarded.
- Commitment to business improvement.
- Strong reporting and MS Office skills.
- Experience with SAP, Salesforce, Power BI and Office365 would be highly regarded.
- CAPA management, supplier management or internal/supplier audit experience desirable

**Why work at Olympus?**

At Olympus, we are dedicated to fostering a high performing culture, a collaborative environment, and enabling everyone to shine. Our common values of **_Integrity, Empathy, Long-Term View, Agility _**and**_ Unity_** form the foundation of our culture and guide our behaviour, where our people feel like they are making a difference every single day.

Not only will you benefit from a meaningful, rewarding and challenging career, you will have access to a range of benefits:

- A competitive salary package.
- Learning on demand.
- Flexible work arrangements (work from home, flexible hours, purchase additional leave).
- Health and Wellbeing initiatives (Corporate Games, Run 4 Kids, Free Bowel Cancer Screening tests, RUOK Day, and EAP).
- Home office allowance available for eligible roles upon commencement.
- Reward and Recognition Program ‘Shining Stars’.
- Social events (Strategy forums, Annual Awards, and Christmas parties).

**About us**:
Our purpose at Olympus is to **_make peoples’ lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling_**. We do this through innovation. As a technology pioneer, we design and deliver medical solutions that make a positive contribution to society.

Our products are used to capture the medical and diagnostic images of our world, from the microscopic to the endoscopic. They are instrumental in furthering scientific research, and for traveling inside the human body to help diagnose, treat and prevent illness.

Our commitment to customers and our social responsibility is the cornerstone of everything we do.

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**_ No Agency assistance required at this time._**

**_ Olympus Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer_