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

In this exciting role as senior supplier quality engineer in Neuroscience portfolio, you will have primary focus responsibility including new product introduction and legacy product remediation. You will be a key member of the Medtronic quality engineering team and responsible for coordinating suppliers and verifying quality standards in accordance with the company requirements .

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
• Qualify suppliers according to company standards & management of approved supplier list per purchasing control compliance.
• Initiate and drives SCAPA’s/NCR’s to suppliers not performing/or adhering to company standards. Manage supplier change requests .
• Assess  supplier performance on periodic basis & drive necessary action for continous improvement.
• Establish a process & ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services.
• Lead  PPAP execution with supplier and ensure robust supplier process qualification/validation through IQ, OQ & PQ methodology.
• 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.
• Provide 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.
• Collaborates with component engineers to develop and deliver the product acceptance sampling strategy, approved supplier list coordination, supplier owned quality deployment, PFMEA,MSA, ,control plans and  relevant quality tools and methodologies  for new products and legacy product.
• Define Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation for all internal Medtronic test methods.
• Conduct audits to qualify supplier’s for intended use for the business.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Science, or Technical Discipline required and Minimum of  8 to 12 years of quality systems experience. Experience in supplier management is 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.
• Comfortable working with international and multi-cultural department and groups in different time zones . 
• Accurate and delivers quality work, with a sense of urgency.
• Ability to work well under pressure and maintain positive, enthusiastic attitude.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment .Eagerness to learn and expand responsibilities & accountablity .

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.
 

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 here