Associate Director Clinical Quality Assurance Jobs in Massachusetts
Associate Director Clinical Quality Assurance jobs in Massachusetts are concentrated in the Greater Boston area, the Route 128 corridor, and Cambridge, where companies like Biogen, Takeda, and Sanofi Genzyme maintain major operations. Demand is strongest in GCP compliance, clinical trial oversight, and regulatory submissions quality, reflecting the state's dense concentration of biopharma and medical device firms. Massachusetts is among the most active markets in the country for this role, with openings at every seniority level within the director track. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Our Operations professionals manage and support the creation of our world-class flow control products in a low-volume, high mix manufacturing environment. These folks are our manufacturing leaders - shop managers, purchasing professionals, production and demand planners, engineers, and quality professionals who value working with other top manufacturing professionals and helping solve complex production problems. In addition to a work environment that promotes learning and promote-from-within opportunities, we understand what matters to our production workers: competitive, market-drive pay, outstanding benefits, and a stable and dependable job place supported by over 140 years of being in business. If you are looking for a place to call home in your next manufacturing role, come and explore all that Chesterton has to offer!
Our benefits offering include:
“Work Today, get paid tomorrow” - withdraw up to 30% of your earned daily wages the next day after you work rather than waiting for pay day!- Chesterton Student Loan Repayment Program
- BCBS Medical Coverage
- Delta Dental
- 401K savings plan with a Chesterton contribution
- PTO including vacation sick, time, 11 paid holidays, and paid to time off to volunteer for causes
- Vision insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
- HSA & FSA options to cover additional medical costs
- Parental leave for moms and dads to be
- Hiring referral bonuses (up to $3,000 for select roles)
Job Summary:
The Senior Manager, Quality Assurance is responsible for ensuring products consistently meet or exceed customer specifications, expectations, external certification standards, and comply with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements. This role is responsible for leading efforts associated with the implementation of the Chesterton Quality System across multiple factories. The Senior Manager, Quality Assurance is also responsible for leading activities related to preventing defects, reducing variation, and waste in the manufacturing processes across multiple factories. Further, this position is responsible for leading efforts to ensure production line operators are properly equipped to assume responsibility and accountability for quality at the source across multiple factories. This position ensures professional evaluation and resolution of customer complaints across multiple factories. The Senior Manager, Quality Assurance is responsible for ensuring effective maintenance of the ISO 9001:2015 certification status across multiple factories. Additionally, this role is responsible for identifying benchmark practices across multiple factories and working with the Director, Quality Assurance and Product Compliance to ensure, when applicable, these benchmark practices are deployed globally.
Job Model: On-Site
On-Site positions will require employees to work on-site for each of their scheduled shifts.
Responsibilities:
- Consistent, regular and punctual attendance is an essential function of this job.
- Manage and lead all quality activities while consistently assessing the overall effectiveness of these activities across multiple factories.
- Lead efforts to identify and resolve gaps in quality training and information accuracy that impact the line operator’s ability to deliver quality product across multiple factories.
- Communicate with customers, suppliers, certification bodies, and agencies regarding compliance issues across multiple product lines.
- Ensure robust and accurate process control systems are deployed to identify and resolve abnormal processing conditions across multiple factories and where applicable, seek global conformance.
- Serve as a critical advocate and subject matter expert regarding the Chesterton Quality System policies, standards, and requirements.
- Lead efforts to involve line operators in the development and implementation of systems designed to demonstrate improved performance results associated with the Chesterton Quality System policies, standards, and requirements as well as ensure global deployment where applicable.
- Proactively and thoroughly execute performance management practices to address issues that have a negative impact on the ability to meet quality requirements.
- Effectively utilize data to prioritize improvement opportunities and actively lead the development and implementation of effective containment and root cause corrective actions.
- Effectively utilize quality tools to collect and interpret data to prioritize and realize improvement opportunities, i.e., Cause & Effect Diagram, Flowcharting, Check Sheets, Pareto Diagram, Histograms, Control Charts, Scatter Diagrams.
- Lead and supervise Quality Engineers, Precision Inspectors, and others as directed by management.
- Execute internal audits and lead the structured problem-solving process to ensure all audit findings and observations are adequately addressed.
- Lead efforts to clearly understand all factory customer complaints and resolutions.
- Ensure proper controls are in place to monitor supplier performance and work with global quality to determine proper corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with all ISO 9001:2015 standards.
- Report the quality performance results and associated improvement plans across multiple factories monthly.
Complexity of Duties:
- Ability to influence and manage upward.
- Work with members of the organization’s Manufacturing Operations team in executing strategic plans to improve quality.
- Provide service to global operations team in the form of analysis, solution recommendation, implementation, and training.
- Work is reviewed in terms of meeting organizational, financial, and operational objectives.
Essential Skills:
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.
- Leadership, interpersonal, organizational, and management skills.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the techniques of quality tools, systems, and methods.
- High degree of interpersonal sensitivity while driving successful change.
- Knowledge of specific process and methodologies including ISO 9001 and other voluntary national and international standards and regulations.
- Strong influencing and communication skills.
- Skilled at independently assessing risks and making decisions.
- Knowledge of business process design, improvement, and change management.
- Strategic planning and development skills.
- Strong tactical abilities with demonstrated results.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or 10-15 years of equivalent experience is required
- 8 - 10 years’ experience in a quality management focused leadership position
- Specific experience with manufacturing operations
- Strong business excellence modeling systems
Other Skills and Abilities:
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.
Employees assigned to certain tasks within this job may be required to participate in our Medical Surveillance Program.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear and reach with hands and arms. May be required to lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Noise (i.e. - manufacturing production) exists daily in the work environment.
Disclaimer:
A.W. CHESTERTON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
Targeted pay range: $140,000 - $155,000/year depending on experience
Chesterton is committed to paying all its employees in a fair and equitable manner. The pay range associated with this position ($140,000 - $155,000/year DOE) is Chesterton's good-faith salary estimate for the presently available position. Several roles at Chesterton are considered “leveled” positions and as such, the company reserves the right to advertise and or hire for this position at appropriate level depending on applicant’s skillset/experience. If the salary range to be offered for a “leveled” based position (I, II, III, etc.) is different than what was advertised on any posting, that range will be discussed with the candidate before they are formally invited to interview.
Hired applicants may be eligible for additional incentive compensation depending on the level and or function of the position which will be discussed with the candidate prior to formal interview. Payments under these programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.
Please note that the final salary offered for any position will be based on many factors, including but not limited to: candidate qualifications such as education and experience, internal equity, geographical location, and budget. Please note, it is not the company's usual practice to hire near or at the top of a pay range for any position that is available.
Chesterton anticipates the application window closing approximately 45 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require Chesterton to shorten or extend the application window.
All of A.W. Chesterton Company employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background check and the respective medical surveillance requirements. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Chesterton is an equal opportunity employer M/F/V/D
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What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in associate director clinical quality assurance jobs across Massachusetts.
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in life sciences, pharmacy, or a related clinical field
- Minimum seven to ten years of quality assurance experience in clinical research or biopharma
- Deep working knowledge of FDA regulations, ICH guidelines, and GCP standards
- Demonstrated experience leading QA audits, CAPA programs, and inspection readiness activities
- Prior people management experience leading QA teams or cross-functional quality initiatives
- Familiarity with electronic quality management systems such as Veeva Vault or MasterControl
Associate Director Clinical Quality Assurance Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a associate director clinical quality assurance in Massachusetts?
The path to this role in Massachusetts typically begins with a bachelor's or advanced degree in a life sciences field, followed by progressive experience in GCP or GMP quality assurance at a biopharma, biotech, or medical device company. There is no state-issued license specific to this role, but many Massachusetts employers expect candidates to hold or actively pursue credentials such as the ASQ Certified Quality Auditor. Building experience through QA specialist or manager roles at Massachusetts-based companies, then taking on audit leadership and CAPA ownership, is the standard career trajectory.
Which companies hire associate director clinical quality assurances in Massachusetts?
Companies currently hiring associate director clinical quality assurances in Massachusetts include Bristol Myers Squibb, MES Solutions, and Beam Therapeutics, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Massachusetts's dense biopharma and medical device ecosystem means openings appear consistently across established multinationals and mid-size clinical-stage companies alike.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most associate director clinical quality assurance jobs?
The cities with the most associate director clinical quality assurance openings in Massachusetts are Boston, Devens, and Marlborough. Boston and Cambridge anchor the market through their concentration of biopharma headquarters and major academic medical centers, while suburban Route 128 corridor cities attract openings from large clinical operations and device manufacturers that have expanded outside the urban core.
Are there remote associate director clinical quality assurance jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than many clinical roles, since a significant portion of the work involves document review, audit management, and cross-functional oversight that can be performed remotely. About 51% of associate director clinical quality assurance openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting a post-pandemic shift among Massachusetts biopharma employers. Inspection readiness and on-site audit support tend to remain the parts of the role most anchored to a physical location.
How can I get hired as a associate director clinical quality assurance in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a QA associate or clinical quality specialist role at a Massachusetts biopharma or CRO, then building toward manager-level ownership of audits and CAPA processes. Large Massachusetts employers such as Biogen, Takeda, and Sanofi Genzyme run structured associate programs and regularly hire from adjacent roles like clinical operations coordinator, regulatory affairs associate, or document control specialist. Earning an ASQ quality credential or completing a GCP certification strengthens candidates coming from adjacent functions and signals readiness for the compliance demands of the associate director level.
Where can I find and apply to associate director clinical quality assurance jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to associate director clinical quality assurance jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current Massachusetts openings from employers actively hiring for this role. Search the listings, find roles that fit your background and target area, and apply directly.
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