Senior Supplier Quality Lead Engineer (Life Sciences)

Danaher Corporation; Truro; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva, part of Danaher, is seeking a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer for the Newquay site to drive supplier quality activities under the Discovery and Medical Supplier Quality Manager. The role focuses on SCARs, audits, onboarding, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure supply chain quality across projects.

You will coordinate containment, corrective actions, and supplier communications while contributing to risk assessment and continuous improvement initiatives within life sciences

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, technical discipline, or equivalent with experience in manufacturing, engineering, or quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Issue, monitor and approve Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) and provide feedback on root cause analysis with suppliers.
• Maintain qualified auditor status, train team members and lead remediation activities after audits; manage the annual supplier audit program.
• Review, assess impact of supplier change requests, communicate with stakeholders and escalate critical SCRs as needed.
• Support containment and correction for supplier defects and document accordingly; own and execute quality event tasks and train colleagues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Project Management, Sourcing, QA) to manage supplier quality requirements and onboarding.
• Create inputs for Management Review and support daily management with supplier quality actions plans.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

Job description

Cytiva, part of Danaher, is seeking a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer for the Newquay site to drive supplier quality activities under the Discovery and Medical Supplier Quality Manager. The role focuses on SCARs, audits, onboarding, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure supply chain quality across projects.

You will coordinate containment, corrective actions, and supplier communications while contributing to risk assessment and continuous improvement initiatives within life sciences