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
A typical day involves managing supplier qualification activities and maintaining the Approved Supplier List in line with compliance requirements. It includes driving PPAP execution and reviewing key quality documents such as PFMEA, Control Plans, and MSA with suppliers. The role also requires collaborating with cross-functional teams to define inspection methods and resolve quality issues. Additionally, conducting supplier audits and supporting corrective actions ensures consistent delivery of high-quality, defect-free products.
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 ASL(Approved Supplier List) per Medtronic purchasing control compliance.
- Lead PPAP execution with supplier and ensure robust supplier process qualification/validation through IQ, OQ & PQ methodology. Manage and release all PPAP deliverables ( such as Control Plan, MSA, PFMEA , FAI etc.) in document control system.
- Define Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation for all internal Medtronic test methods.
- Collaborates with cross functional team 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.
- Provide technical assistance to supplier during product/ process qualification lifecycle, to deliver quality parts, materials, and services, prevent defects, and allow Medtronic to provide customers with the highest quality and reliable products.
- Conduct audits to qualify supplier's for intended use for the business as needed.
- Work with suppliers to support SCAPA's/NCR's in adherence to company standards
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.
- 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 & accountability. Nice to Have:
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Previous experience working with global team (Aerospace,Defense, Med device, automobile preferably).
- Previous customer-facing and/or project management experience is a plus.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.
- ASQ Quality certification – CQE, CSQP, CQA.
- Working knowledge of Agile MAP PLM system, Standard, Guidance, and Regulations.
- Hand on experience on Minitab tools to perform statistical analysis.
- Exposure in auditing to FDA Quality System Regulation & ISO 13485.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
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
