Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

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 Digital Technologies (DT), part of Medtronic’s Medical Surgical Portfolio, we believe patients around the world deserve access to quality care and improved outcomes. We strive to expand global access to care and reduce variability through robotic and laparoscopic and AI/ML analytics-based solutions.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Supplier/Manufacturing Quality Engineer to join our innovative team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in New Product Development (NPD) Systems Engineering, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance within the medical device industry. This role will be pivotal in ensuring the development and maintenance of high-quality, reliable, and safe medical devices that meet or exceed regulatory standards and customer expectations.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Conducts supplier selection, assessments, quality system audits and supplier part and process qualification (PPAP).
• Responsible for the component qualification process, FAI, and manufacturability assessment.
• Lead design for manufacturability and assembly (DFMA) discussion with Medtronic design team and supply base.
• Assures supplier compliance to relevant quality and regulatory standards.
• Provides feedback to design teams regarding suppliers’ capabilities, tolerance, specifications, measurement, and test methodologies.
• Is a liaison between NPD teams and suppliers on technical and/or quality issues.
• Works directly with suppliers to achieve goals including some travel on short notice.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, Electronics Engineering, or related field + 4 years’ experience or Advanced Degree + 2 years’ experience.
• Expertise/experience in Magnetics and Electrical/Electronics (e.g. PCBA, Flex Circuits, Power Supply, etc.) or expertise/experience in Injection Molding, Machining, Die Cast, Stamping, Extrusion, MIM, etc
• New Product Development Processes
• Ability to work with a supplier on requirements, specifications, process improvements, and capability studies.
• Background in Six-Sigma, LEAN, DFSS and related quality management tools
• • Ability to resolve complex problems requiring detailed data analysis, calculation, or experimentation.

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