Job #5508 Data Entry Clerk

Job Position Details

Site	USA-TN-Memphis
Labor Type	Admin/Clerical
Positions Requested	2
Travel Time	0.000 %
Hours per Day	8
Hours per Week	40
Total Hours	2,064.00
Estimated Additional Spend	10.000 %
Estimated Expenses	0.000 %
Flat Adjustments	0.00
Description
SUMMARY: The position will support Quality Engineering working under the direction of the Quality Systems Manager and IQS Application Administrator. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: data entry, review of QAC prints, database maintenance, some transcription of Quality Acceptance Criteria to Excel format and review of uploaded QACs. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned • Work closely with Quality Engineers and Quality Control to ensure all product characteristics are captured correctly within the InfinityQS software • Occasional review of product drawings to ensure drawing locations and stated characteristics match prints • Transcription and maintenance of Quality Acceptance Criteria to IQS Criteria worksheets for entry into InfinityQS • Populate InfinityQS database with new IQS Criteria. To include revisions to entered criteria as needed, as well as verification of data entered. • Create weekly progress reports to track criteria entered into InfinityQS database and log any issues found while entering data. • Log entered product numbers in the IQS Master Part list for Quality Control reference. • Work with various software applications to ensure up-to-date entry of criteria QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Associate’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Two (2) years experience in a related field in lieu of education. Experience with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and data entry software is strongly preferred. OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES: Strong communication and organization skills with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines for multiple projects. Ability to work in a minimally supervised environment. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job involve normal vision. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
Shift Type	1st Shift
Special Equipment Required	No

Job#5500 Architecture & Database Administration/Development

Title	Longitudinal Data System
Location	St. Paul, MN
Project Start/End Date	The project resources selected will be expected to be available on or about January 4, 2016 for an engagement approximately one year.
The Business Need	MN.IT @ Education is looking for a single vendor to supply an experienced team of an architect and developer to work in parallel with MN.IT @ Education staff to enhance and maintain an interagency data warehouse. The interagency warehouse contains anonymized unit record data for individuals from birth to workforce employment that will support education research. The data is drawn from multiple resources – Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE), and Minnesota Department of Economic Development (DEED). All work will be directed by MN.IT @ Education project managers. This RFO is to secure the services of approximately 2 resources with skills in the identified service categories to supplement the MN.IT @ Education team. It is anticipated that the engagement will consist of 1 resource from the Architect Category and 1 resource from the Database Administration/Development Category. Selected individuals will be responsible for design, construction, testing, documentation, and support of the warehouse effort. A team member will also help with leveraging our current investment in business intelligence tools by creating and updating any necessary data marts for the public and secured reports.
Deliverables	·         Coordinate and manage data set “logistics” (e.g. issues, access to data, coordination of subject matter experts, etc.). ·         Conduct data profiling, using MN P20W standards practices to iteratively work with the data provider to define, document, and clean the data. ·         Define the data linking rules to be exercised on the personally identifying information available in each data set. Use this definition to evaluate existing data linking rules and integrate the new data set in a way that maintains or improves the quality of data linking results. ·         Develop the program logic to link and load each data set into the operational data store (ODS). ·         Create the database architecture required to support the linking, loading, and storage of the new data in the ODS, consistent with the existing architecture. ·         Create and populate a data warehouse from the ODS. ·         Evaluate and possibly refine the data operations to accommodate the data frequency and business needs.
Job Requirements	All experience described in the matrix must also be on the resume. The following skills are required for resource(s) being submitted. These are scored as pass/fail. Required minimum qualifications must be met for each resource submitted under each category: Architect ·         5 plus years’ experience with business intelligence project management ·         5 plus years’ experience with MS SQL Server Databases ·         5 plus years’ experience with data modeling and analysis tools ·         5 plus years’ experience with warehouse data modeling using the “Kimball” approach ·         5 plus years’ experience with implementing applications based on SQL in stored procedures; creation of views; etc. Database Administration/Development ·         5 plus years’ experience with MS SQL Server Databases ·         5 plus years’ experience with MS SSIS, SSAS ·         5 plus years’ experience with warehouse data modeling using the “Kimball” approach ·         5 plus years’ experience with data modeling and analysis tools ·         5 plus years’ experience with ETL (extract, transform, and load) programming ·         5 plus years’ experience with: § MS SQL Server § XML § MDX § Subversion Desired Skills - (applies to both the Architecture & Database Administration/Development Categories) ·         Subject matter expertise in K-12 education, health, human services, higher education, workforce and or labor data and research ·         Business requirements analysis for data warehousing ·         Experience with data linking rules development ·         Experience in coaching or team development situations
RFO Evaluation Process	·         Experience of candidates (50%) ·         Desired Skills (20%) ·         Cost (30%)
References	List three (3) references who can speak to the resource’s work on a similar project. Include the company name and address, reference name, reference email, reference phone number, and a brief description of the project this resource completed.

Job# 5501 Program/Project Management

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Title	Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead for Ramsey County Enterprise Asset Management Program.
Location	Metro Square facility in downtown St. Paul and Public Works facility in Arden Hills
Project Start/End Date	Project Start Date: As soon as work order contract is fully executed          Projected End Date: 6 months from start date
The Business Need	The County (Ramsey County) needs assistance of a qualified consultant with organizational change management experience for this Project. Organizational Change Management (OCM) has the following meaning to the County: applying a proactive, flexible, and practical approach to manage the people, process, and technology changes occurring within the County while achieving a project’s desired outcomes. OCM includes mitigating risk as the County transitions individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state.  The OCM Lead (the “Lead”) will play a key role in partnering with the County’s assigned project manager to create an OCM strategy and a change action plan that allows the Project to meet its objectives of meeting timelines and staying on budget. In addition, the Lead should be able to demonstrate an increase in employee adoption and usage. The Lead will focus on the people side of change – including changes and associated impacts that include, but are not limited to: business processes, systems and technology, job roles, organization structures, behaviors, culture, and policies and procedures. The Lead’s primary responsibility will be to utilize the County’s OCM artifacts and deliverables that complement the County’s project management methodology. These will be used to create and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage while minimizing resistance. The Lead will work to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization and greater proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organization to increase return on investment and achieve desired outcomes. NOTE: This role is *NOT* calling for an ITSM/ITIL Change Manager who approves system changes to production environments, nor a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement consultant, nor a program/project manager who has done a little bit of OCM while working in the primary role of program/project management.
Deliverables	The Lead will be responsible for developing and executing on the following deliverables: ·         Apply the County’s OCM structured methodology and lead change management activities ·         Conduct stakeholder analysis, readiness assessments, evaluate results, and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner ·         Perform a detailed change impact assessment to identify how the Project will affect internal and external County stakeholders ·         Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management action plans – including communication plans, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, leadership engagement plan, training plan, and resistance management plan ·         Execute the change management plans and/or support the project teams in the execution of change management plans ·         Be an active and visible coach and mentor to project leadership, department managers, and change sponsors ·         Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes ·         Identify and onboard change agents ·         Support ongoing change agent engagement ·         Identify resistance and performance gaps and work to develop and implement corrective actions ·         Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success ·         Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan ·         Work with project teams in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project implementation ·         Define and measure success
Job Requirements	All experience described in the matrix must also be on the resume. The following skills are required for resource(s) being submitted. These are scored as pass/fail. · A B.S or B.A degree (4 year) ·         5 years minimum experience in Organizational Change Management that includes at least 3 of the following activities: ·         Providing a structured OCM methodology and leading change management activities ·         Conducting stakeholder analysis, readiness assessments, evaluating results, and presenting findings ·         Developing change management plans – including communication plans, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, and resistance management plan ·         Executing the change management plans and/or supporting the project teams in the execution of change management plans ·         Creating and managing measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes ·         Identifying resistance and performance gaps and working to develop and implement corrective actions ·         Working with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan ·         At least 2 previous engagements on large-scale technology deployments; enterprise, across a large organization, multiple locations, with 1,000+ employees, vs a single company with 100+ employees. Desired Skills ·         5 years minimum experience in Organizational Change Management that includes all of the activities listed in the Required Skills (experience beyond the minimums) ·         Proven experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ·         Prior experience on IT-related initiatives identifying process, procedure, policy, people, technology, and culture-related changes ·         Can identify and execute the activities needed to elicit what is changing in the organization ·         Identification and delivery of mitigation activities to reduce risk to an organization going through
RFO Evaluation Process	·         Desired Skills (70%) ·         Cost (30%)
References	List three (3) references who can speak to the resource’s work on a similar project. Include the company name and address, reference name, reference email, reference phone number, and a brief description of the project this resource completed.

Job# 4654 Quality Engineer II

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Job Position Details

Site	USA-CA-Northridge
Length of Contract	12/07/2015 to 06/03/2016
Labor Type	Technical
Positions Requested	1
Respond by Date	12/07/2015
Travel Time	0.000 %
Hours per Day	8
Hours per Week	40
Total Hours	1,040.00
Estimated Additional Spend	10.000 %
Estimated Expenses	0.000 %
Flat Adjustments	0.00
Description
Focus on Design Quality role, compliance, risk management - Software focused - working knowledge of 62304 preferably from medical field or aerospace. This is not Testing or Validation Position Description:  The Principal Software Quality Engineer will participate in the execution of new product development and sustaining products and administration of quality assurance programs, policies, processes, procedures and controls in compliance with the evolving and complex US and global requirements of the medical device industry. The individual will act as a subject matter expert and provide guidance to the business in interpreting and executing against Medtronic quality system elements including software work products to ensure compliance. This individual will ensure that all system-level project / program work products (e.g., plans, requirements, specifications, tests, test results, traceability, risk management documents, reports) meet Medtronic’s quality, reliability, and compliance requirements. This individual will ensure Design Quality Assurance-driven initiatives meet objectives in delivering highest quality products, with supporting tools and processes. Position Responsibilities:  • Review all project / program work products (e.g. plans, requirements, specifications, tests, test results, traceability, risk management documents, reports). • Collaborate with project / program teams to ensure work products comply with Medtronic procedures, acceptable qualitative and quantitative criteria, and global standards, regulations, and guidance. • Plans, develops and implements validation plans for new product development in conjunction with R& D, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing and other service groups. • Assists Supplier Quality Assurance with supplier audits; interfaces with Purchasing and Supplier Quality Assurance with supplier issues. • Generates documentation at the project level including software and system risk assessment, and requirements compliance matrix (ERM). • Chair cross-functional change control boards (known at Medtronic as Change Review Group (CRG)). • Assist in the analysis of field returns and in-process non-conformities. • Perform and lead CAPA projects and activities. • Provide training, when required, to personnel engaging in design and development, verification and validation, inspection, documentation, and manufacturing. • Participate in technical design reviews, CCB (Change Control Board) reviews, PQRB (Product Qualification Review Board) reviews, and PAB (Phase Approval Board) reviews. • Provide guidance and direction to other engineers and technical support staff. • Drive SOP/DOP updates or creation of new processes based upon upcoming standards or process improvements. Identify and support cost-saving programs and process improvements. • Apply and improve advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in the monitoring and coordination of various design, development, testing, and quality activities. • Work under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated. Determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior. • Performs other related duties as assigned. Basic Qualifications:  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 7 years’ related experience in engineering and/or quality assurance in a regulated industry (e.g., FDA-regulated, FAA-regulated, DoD, CMMI ML 3+) or Master’s Degree in Engineering with 5 years’ related experience. • Working knowledge of embedded systems and application software. • Working knowledge of various Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) models (e.g. waterfall, spiral / iterative, scrum) • Working knowledge of risk management (generation of software and system risk analysis), CAPA, and/or Design Controls. • Experience leading a project. Desired/ Preferred Qualifications:  • Master’s Degree in Engineering. • ASQ Certification in Quality or Reliability. • Experience in an electronic manufacturing environment • Working knowledge of IEC 62304, FDA’s General Principles of Software validation, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, 21 CFR 820, IEC 60601-1 and MDD • Working experience with internationally certified quality systems, USFDA Quality System Regulation, and / or other mature regulatory or process models. • Strong oral/ written communication skills and interpersonal skills. • Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining solutions. • Working knowledge of various medical industry standards. • Working knowledge of problem solving and statistical methods as applied to process and product quality. • Ability to write technical reports, business correspondence, technical procedures as well as administrative procedures. • Ability to apply knowledge and work with development and supply vendors to ensure compliance to Medtronic requirements. • Ability to represent the department in frequent inter-organizational and outside vendor contacts. • Experience with embedded medical devices and hardware/firmware. • Ability to effectively manage multiple system level projects / programs. • Self-Starter and accountable, with sharp focus on quality and customer experience.
Shift Type	1st Shift
Special Equipment Required	none