Supplier Quality Engineer II - 12 month contract - Mervue Site

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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At our Supplier Quality Engineering Dept in Medtronic, plc, we focus on Post- Market Supplier Quality to deliver quality parts, materials, and services, prevent defects, and allow Medtronic to provide customers with the highest quality and reliable products.

Supplier Quality Engineers are directly involved in ensuring that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services.

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A Day in The Life Of:

• Ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services.

• Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur.

• Drive supplier improvement/corrective action through the following activities:

• Work with the supply base to drive corrective/preventative action based on feedback from incoming inspection, Medtronic/supplier internal quality metrics and customer complaints.

• Coordinate and monitor change control process (including review and approval) to ensure performance, compliance and regulatory requirements are met and properly documented.

• Review/prepare test plans and reports (qualification, validation) for change and improvement activities (supplier certifications, material/sub-supplier changes and supplier performed special processes).

• Provide technical assistance to suppliers/other resources performing qualification/validation testing. Ensure the resolution of all issues raised during testing/qualification.

• Builds a collaborative relationship with suppliers to quickly address any non-conformances, complete root cause investigation, implement corrective actions and monitor for desired results.

• Collaborates with the operating platform to address issues and gain alignment when required.

• Support supplier visits or audits as required.

• You will work with supplier and sub-tier suppliers, as required, to lead and drive systematic approaches and ensure stability related to medical device quality.

• Provide statistical support by the creation of supplier related metrics for the purposes of tracking vendor performance and identifying opportunities for improvements.

• Define Receiving Inspection requirements as required and associated test method validation where required for internal Medtronic Test Methods.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum NFQ Level 8 degree in Science, Engineering, or relevant discipline.

• 2+ years Engineering and/or Quality experience in the medical industry or related field.

• You are a dynamic team player and can work effectively and proactively on cross functional teams.

• Excellent problem-solving skills are desirable.

• You are a good communicator and fluent in English, both verbal and written.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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.
 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 48,000.00 EUR - 72,000.00 EUR |  

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