Quality Assurance Officer

Victrex is a world leader in high-performance polymer solutions, and we’re looking for a **Quality Assurance Officer** to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring quality compliance across the full product lifecycle in a highly regulated industry.

**About the Role**
As a Quality Assurance Officer, you’ll be the quality lead on project teams, ensuring our products and services meet international standards and regulatory requirements. You’ll be responsible for design approvals, managing customer complaints, and leading validation activities. You’ll also support audits and maintain technical documentation to enable product registration.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead quality assurance activities across the full product lifecycle.
- Approve batch releases.
- Define and implement quality compliance plans.
- Manage customer complaints, CAPAs, and root cause investigations.
- Plan and report validation activities internally and with suppliers/customers.
- Maintain Master Files and Technical Files for product registration.
- Support internal, supplier, customer, and regulatory audits.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on quality matters.

**Experience Required**
- Proven experience in a highly regulated industry.
- Strong understanding of quality management systems relevant to market sectors.
- Hands-on experience with auditing processes in regulated environments, including:

- ISO 13485
- MDR
- FDA QMSR

**Qualifications**
- Degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.

**Additional Information** This role requires **frequent travel to our Lancashire HQ**, so flexibility and willingness to travel are essential.

**NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE.**

**About Invibio**

Invibio, part of the Victrex plc group, is a global leader in providing high-performance biomaterial solutions to medical device manufacturers.

The company provides PEEK-OPTIMA polymers, advanced technical research and support and manufacturing of components for spine, trauma and orthopaedic medical segments for the development of long-term implantable medical devices. Today, Invibio’s PEEK-OPTIMA polymers are used in approximately 15 million implanted devices worldwide.

If you are looking to join an ambitious team, supporting innovation in the medical industry, then you can expect to be excited by this role and all it offers.

In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer an attractive benefits package including private healthcare, 29 days holiday and a generous company pension contribution.

As part of Victrex, we have a clear purpose: to bring transformational and sustainable solutions which address world material challenges every day.

At Invibio, this supports our goal of treating a patient using Invibio solutions every 15 seconds by 2027.

We are seeking talent that can help us achieve this through the development of solutions that improve patient outcomes and address healthcare costs. Two of the most critical areas for our strategy are around delivering innovative technologies in fracture fixation (trauma surgery) and knee arthroplasty where we are driving the adoption of truly innovative solutions.

**About Victrex**

With over 40 years‘ experience, we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which enable environmental and societal benefit for our customers and our markets and drive value for our shareholders

**Vision and culture**

At Victrex, we have a clear purpose: to deliver transformational and sustainable solutions that address global material challenges.

Our core values of passion, innovation, and performance are at the heart of everything we do. We are a company that thrives on human-centred leadership, valuing curiosity, adaptability, and collaboration in a fast-paced, digitally enabled world. We believe in empowering individuals, rather than seeing barriers to progress.

We are looking for individuals who are comfortable working in an environment that values digital and AI-driven solutions, who see technology as an enabler rather than a challenge. At Victrex, we foster a culture of continuous learning, agility, and adaptability, where employees are encouraged to embrace new ways of working, leverage data-driven insights, and drive meaningful change.

As we continue to evolve, we need people who are not just contributors but change acceleratorsindividuals who champion innovation, and drive transformation with a growth mindset. Whether through digitalisation, process improvement, or human-centred leadership, our employees play a crucial role in shaping the future of our business.

Our leadership approach is built on empowerment, inclusion, and collaboration. We value people who lead with empathy and authenticity, fostering a workplace where diverse perspectives and ideas can thrive. We work hard to ensure that our teams are engaged, motivated, and equippe