Quality Engineer

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Job Description:

Quality Engineer (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing product assurance engineering support for commercialized products including specification and design control, change management, risk management, investigations, and continuous improvement.
• Participating in customer audits, ISO 13485 audits, internal audits, and other activities to identify improvement opportunities.
• Providing quality assurance and control for products used in FDA regulated industries, including control of incoming materials, review of in-process tests and release tests and device history records.
• Working with manufacturing engineers and other personnel to solve product quality issues.
• Leading investigations, corrective action responses, trending and monitoring for nonconforming materials, complaints, and supplier issues.
• Interacting with business quality personnel and outside suppliers to ensure product quality and performance.
• Driving quality improvement using engineering best practice, statistical techniques, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline (completed and verified prior to start) and (1) one year of quality manufacturing or quality laboratory experience in a private, public, government or military environment

OR

• High School Diploma/GED AND five (5) years of quality manufacturing or quality laboratory experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

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• Experience applying quality system requirements, including Quality Manuals, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Parts 210, 211, and/or 820, metrology, calibration, auditing, and supplier management.
• Experience applying root cause analysis tools and techniques.
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) certification or willingness to obtain certification.
• Experience applying statistical and quality engineering tools, such as exploratory data analysis, basic statistics, Gage R&R, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), process capability analysis, acceptance sampling, correlation and regression, and design of experiments (DOE).
• Experience communicating technical or quality-related information through verbal discussions, presentations, and written communications.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as creating and using data queries, extracts, and analyses.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support quality, engineering, or operational activities.

Work location:

• Onsite: Brookings, SD

Travel: May include up to 5% domestic/international travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $85,200 - $117,150, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-RewardsResponsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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