Job Description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is hybrid to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 20% of travel to various Contract Manufacturers to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.
As a Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, you will serve as a key member of multiple cross-functional core teams responsible for supporting the production of medical devices across several contract manufacturers supporting Acute Care & Monitoring products.

This role is responsible for ensuring all aspects of the manufacturing process produce products to the highest possible reliability and quality. As a Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer level, you will work independently under limited supervision as a seasoned individual contributor addressing difficult challenges at a supplier level. Problem-solving is in-depth, requiring innovative solutions, process improvements, and project or change management skills.

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 me
• 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 with 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.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of FTQ, Lean and 6 Sigma principles
• Knowledge of Risk Management (DFMEA, PFMEA)
• Experience with Validation (IQ, OQ, PQ, TMV)
• Knowledge and experience with manufacturing assembly processes and inspection/testing methods
• Excellent organization, planning, technical writing, communication, and presentation 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. 

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 95,000+ 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 here