senior supplier quality engineer

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer within Medtronic's Neuroscience portfolio, you'll be a vital member of our quality engineering team. Your primary focus will be on ensuring the highest quality standards for incoming materials and components, supporting both new product introductions and legacy product remediation. You'll coordinate with suppliers and collaborate across engineering and manufacturing functions to uphold Medtronic's rigorous quality requirements, helping us champion healthcare access and equity globally.

A Day in the Life

You will drive supplier quality and product excellence by:

• Developing, modifying, applying, and maintaining quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Collaborating with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure robust quality standards are in place.
• Devising and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designing or specifying inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducting quality assurance tests; and performing statistical analysis to assess costs and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensuring that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Potentially specializing in areas such as design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• Working comfortably with international and multi-cultural departments and groups in different time zones.
• Delivering accurate and high-quality work with a sense of urgency.
• Working effectively under pressure while maintaining a positive, enthusiastic attitude.
• Thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrating eagerness to learn and expand responsibilities and accountability.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a Technical Discipline is required.
• Minimum of 8 to 12 years of quality systems experience.
• Experience in supplier management is an added advantage.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to comprehend principles of engineering, physiology, and medical device use.
• Previous customer-facing and/or project management experience is a plus.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and providing a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

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 90,000+ 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.