Engineering Director - Supplier Quality | Diabetes
Engineering Director - Supplier Quality | Diabetes
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$ 194400 - 291600
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Job Description
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Engineering Director - Supplier Quality DiabetesThis position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronics Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
This position will be located on-site in Northridge CA
In this exciting role as an Engineering Director - Supplier Quality you will have responsibility for leading a team of Supplier Quality Managers and SQEs located in the Northridge CA and Juncos PR manufacturing sites. You will develop long term strategic relationships and alliances with key internal and external stakeholders and communicate and conduct briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
Your team will be accountable for changes to existing supplied products and processes as well as oversight of performance and improvement activities.
The Engineering Director - Supplier Quality is responsible for leading and overseeing the supplier quality assurance and management functions. This role ensures that all suppliers meet the companys quality standards regulatory requirements and performance objectives. The successful candidate will drive supplier quality improvements manage supplier audits and develop strategic initiatives to enhance supplier performance and partnerships.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Plans directs and implements all aspects of the companys design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
Develop evaluate implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials techniques or company products.
Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies materials machines processes or products.
Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.
Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
Selects develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Travel up to 25% may be required between manufacturing and supplier sites.
Accountability for mentoring developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives.
Providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives through performance goals and targets.
Conducting performance reviews.
Staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this role please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.
Bachelors Degree required.
Minimum 10 years of relevant Manufacturing (internal & external) Supplier Quality Engineering experience with 7 years of managerial experience OR Advanced degree with a minimum of 8 yearsof relevant Manufacturing (internal & external) Supplier Quality Engineering experience with 7 years of managerial experience.
Nice to Have
Experience in Medical Pharmaceutical or highly regulated product industry.
DMAIC Lean / Six Sigma Certification and demonstrated experience leading DMAIC Projects.
Experience in multiple Quality related functions.
Highly results oriented and focused on business priorities.
Strong leadership and influencing skills to drive results in a highly matrixed organization.
Strong Business and Quality perspective.
Strong change management and transformation skills.
Excellent Communication/Presentation Skills.
Excellent Interpersonal and Talent Management skills.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description 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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic Inc. (Medtronic) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County you can findhere a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
