Supplier Quality EngineerII

Medtronic; Galway; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Quality Engineer to support the product value stream in Galway. The role involves maintaining quality standards, collaborating with engineering and manufacturing, and guiding investigations to ensure compliance and reliable products.

The candidate should have a strong risk-based mindset, the ability to work with limited supervision, and excellent communication and leadership skills in English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or technical field; 4+ years in Quality or Medical Devices.
• Advanced degree is advantageous with 2+ years in Quality/Engineering.
• Strong risk-based problem-solving approach and independent work capability.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile, SAP and SAP ME is a plus; fluent English required.

Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains and applies quality standards and protocols for processing materials into finished products.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing to enforce quality standards.
• Reviews NCMRs/CAPAs/Investigations and provides QA direction.
• Ensures product controls and compliant documentation.

Skills

Quality

Medical devices

Engineering

Problem solving

Independent work

Leadership

Communication

English fluency

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science/technical field

Advanced degree in Engineering/Science

Tools

SAP

SAP ME

Job description

Onsite

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Full time

R74394

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

At our Quality Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on supporting the product value stream to ensure that customer and patient needs are met every day. Our key focus is on delivering and maintaining a high level of Quality to ensure that business and performance goals are achieved. The Quality Engineer role is critical in supporting key department metrics thus contributing to the global strategy and to deliver on our mission to contribute to human welfare by supporting the manufacture of products that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished Aortic product with limited supervision.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Participates in preparing/critically reviewing/approving NCMRs/CAPAs/ Investigations and validation activities, providing expert QA technical direction and solutions as appropriate.
• Ensures effective product control measures in the event of issues being noted.
• Provides guidance, coaching, training, delegation of work and review of others' work to other employees within job area.
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards, and that documentation is compliant with requirements.

Key Skills & Experience

• Level 8 Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 4+ years of experience in Quality or Medical Devices or Advanced degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 2+ years of experience in Quality and/or Engineering.
• You are technically orientated with a strong risk-based approach to problem solving.
• You can work independently under limited supervision to determine and develop this best approach.
• You are a dynamic team player and leader and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams with a high level of enthusiasm and motivation.
• Strong communication, organizational, presentation and leadership skills are desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving skills are desirable.
• Experience with Agile, SAP and SAP ME an advantage.
• You are a good communicator and fluent in English, both verbal and written.

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: 49,920.00 EUR - 74,880.00 EUR |

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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