Sr Supplier Quality Eng
Sr Supplier Quality Eng
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$ 96800 - 145200
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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
Develop and execute strategies to oversee and improve all quality-related activities for Contract Manufacturers (CMs).Build and maintain a robust strategy for managing CMs ensuring alignment with business objectives and quality standards.
Collaborate with CMs to develop and maintain technical quality assurance systems such as MSAs SPC Quality Plans and FMEAs.
Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance supplier quality processes globally.
Lead Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) qualifications for CMs.
Drive Supplier Optimization and Risk Reduction (SOAR) initiatives.
Manage qualifications of changes including process material or tooling changes and oversee associated change control activities.
Implement and monitor CM development initiatives such as performance management process improvements cost reduction and Six Sigma/Lean integration.
Evaluate CM performance recommend improvements and report on quality metrics to company management.
Ensure CM compliance with Medtronic Quality Systems ISO standards and FDA 21 CFR part 820 regulations.
Manage Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) and ensure proper documentation practices for Supplier Change Requests (SCRs).
Facilitate customer complaints related to CM products and ensure thorough investigations and corrective actions.
Perform deviation investigations into quality issues arising from CM activities.
Partner with NPD teams to evaluate and understand future CMs quality plans and capabilities for new products.
Foster effective partnerships with preferred CMs to drive optimal performance mutual trust and financial success.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement and quality excellence within CM relationships.
Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMP) and quality standards are met.
Evaluates suppliers internal functions to assess their overall performance and provides feedback in assessment of their operation.
Nice to Have:
Must be a certified Auditor.
Must have experience in adding new suppliers to the ASL.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts materials and services.
- Qualifies suppliers according to company standards and may administer a Certified Supplier Program in receiving inspection to ensure cost effectiveness.
- Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur.
- Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMP) and quality standards are met.
- Evaluates suppliers internal functions to assess their overall performance and provides feedback in assessment of their operation.
- Some individuals may have responsibilities that include Pre-Market Supplier Quality and duties may include: Provides Pre-Market Quality Engineering support to New Product Development (NPD) working in partnership with the Component Engineering and Post-Market Supplier Quality Teams to deliver quality parts materials and services prevent defects and allow Medtronic to provide customers with the highest quality and reliable products.
- Provides technical guidance and quality compliance for Supplier Quality engagement throughout the NPD lifecycle on newly qualified parts from NPD and implementing strategies for driving product quality and continuous improvement ensuring purchased products and components are manufactured and qualified in accordance to applicable industry standards regulatory requirements and customer requirements.
- Collaborates with Component Engineers to develop and deliver the Product Acceptance Sampling Strategy Approved Supplier List coordination Supplier Owned Quality deployment and Control Plans for new products.
- Define Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation for all internal Medtronic Test Methods.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM:An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies from design to implementation - while adhering to policies using specialized knowledge and skills.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy:Seasoned individual contributor.
Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
Organizational Impact:May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.
Contributes to the completion of work group objectives through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
Innovation and Complexity:Problems and issues faced are difficult and may require understanding of multiple issues job areas or specialties.
Makes improvements of processes systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
Communication and Influence:Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts statuses ideas and issues to achieve objective and influence decision-making.
Leadership and Talent Management:May provide guidance coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects requiring delegation of work and review of others work product.
Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have practical knowledge of project management.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
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 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:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
