Engineer, Quality

PowerToFly; Limerick; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a quality-focused professional for a fixed-term maternity cover role in Ireland, with full onsite responsibilities and a strong emphasis on quality assurance, control, and regulatory compliance. You will drive continuous improvement initiatives and collaborate with operations to ensure quality across products and processes.

Responsibilities include managing internal and supplier non-conformances, CAPAs, MRB disposition, supplier communications, and development of improved

Qualifications

• BSc / B.Eng. in a science, engineering or related discipline preferred, or equivalent years of experience.
• 0+ years experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with operations to ensure quality performance of product and processes.
• Own identified internal and supplier driven non-conformances and manage timely closure of NCs and CAPAs.
• Disposition non-conforming product within MRB and issue NCs as appropriate.
• Communicate with suppliers regarding non-conformances and escalate supplier corrective actions as required.
• Develop and improve internal manufacturing processes for existing products.
• Perform assessment of internal and supplier change management activities.
• Participate in creation/review of new or modified procedures.
• Maintain KPIs, analyze trends, and drive corrective actions.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Manufacturing

Statistical Analysis

Education

BSc / B.Eng. in science or engineering

Job description

Fixed term maternity cover up to September 2027

Full onsite role.

Position Summary

Provide quality engineering support in quality assurance, control, and preventative activities with a focus on continuous improvement of internal products and processes. Support supplier quality issues impacting daily operations. Advocate and lead the execution of initiatives and projects to enhance quality performance within the business and for our customers. Ensure compliance to regulation and standards.

What will you do?

• Work closely with operations and the business functions to ensure quality performance of product and processes.

• Collaborates with Divisional QA, cross-functional and suppliers teams to address top quality issues.

• Own identified internal and supplier driven non-conformances and manage the timely closure of NC's within. Own or support identified internal CAPAs abnd manage to timely root cause investigation, implementation and closure.

• Disposition non-conforming product within MRB, issuing NC's as appropriate.

• Communicate with suppliers regarding non-conformances, escalating supplier corrective action requests as required.

• Engage in the development and improvement of the internal manufacturing processes for existing products.

• Performs critical assessment of internal and supplier proposed change management activities.

• Participates in the creation and/or review of new or modified procedures.

• Maintain KPIs for monitoring of process and/or product quality, perform analysis, and interpret trends, identifying and activating on approriate actions as necessary.

• Support execution and analysis of manufacturing related complaints and product field actions.

• Advocate of Human Factor practices, familiarity in the science of Human Factor identification, reduction, and mitigation.

• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to identify and execute opportunities for supplier part certification.

• Develop understanding of risk management practices and concepts and applies knowledge to manufacturing operations.

• Support the creation and maintenance of inspection methods and sampling.

• Applies statistical methods of analysis and process control to current operations.

• Engage and interface in internal and external audits providing subject matter expertise.

• Support the development and review of process and equipment validation/qualification and MSA of internal processes.

• Execute internal quality deliverables associated with engineering changes, manufacturing transfers and supplier initiated changes.

• Support manufacturing transfers to/from other plants/facilities, executing appropriate quality activities.

What you will need?

• BSc / B. Eng. in a science, engineering or related discipline preferred, or equivalent years of experience.

• 0+ years experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent.

Ireland Pay Ranges:

• Ireland: €40,000 - €67,000 EUR Annual

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker's comprehensive benefits package.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.