Quality Engineering Manager - Supplier Quality

Medtronic; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the medical device industry seeks a dynamic leader for its Supplier Quality team. This role involves guiding a diverse team, ensuring project objectives, and enhancing supplier relationships while maintaining high ethical standards. The position emphasizes the importance of patient safety and quality assurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Short-term incentive plan

Qualifications

• 5 years direct managerial experience of engineers.
• Demonstrated progressive management experience.
• Proven result-driven record in the medical device market.

Responsibilities

• Guide, grow, and motivate a talented team responsible for supplier change control.
• Participate in ongoing development in line with business demands.
• Generate solutions to challenges.

Skills

Team building

Communication

People management

Dynamic team player

Education

Level 8 Degree or higher in Engineering, Science, IT or related discipline

Job description

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

Are you looking to lead and drive innovation in the Medical Device industry? Working within the Supplier Quality team you will support the site in driving excellence with suppliers.

You will have responsibility for working with the site and region to transform the way we manage and process supplier changes. This is a dynamic environment and needs a dynamic leader. At our Supplier Quality Engineering department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on Post Market Supplier Quality to deliver quality parts, materials and services to our customers. We strive to prevent defects and allow Medtronic to provide customers with the highest quality and reliable products.

Our Global Quality and Supplier Quality Strategy is rooted in the Medtronic Mission and our Quality Policy. Being a 'trusted partner' means always putting patient safety first, upholding product quality, and maintaining the highest ethical standards in our business relationships and programs.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

• Guide, grow, and motivate a talented and diverse team responsible for the supplier change control for Ireland.
• Participate in the ongoing development and scaling of the organisation in line with business demands and ensure that we have the skillsets in place to deliver predictable outcomes.
• Grow and nurture cross site and cross functional relationships in a large, multi-site, matrixed organization.
• Support and ensure the achievement of project objectives and milestones.
• Contribute to project decisions using personal expertise, cross functional input, and strong engineering judgment.
• Actively mentor, coach and ensure career development plans are in place for direct reports.
• Collaborate with cross functional and cross site teams to establish objectives and evaluate the progress of direct reports.
• Responsible for managing functional resource allocation.
• Understand and comply with company policies & procedures and external standards & guidance.
• Generate solutions to process, engineering and organizational challenges.

Key Skills & Experience

• Level 8 Degree or higher in Engineering, Science, IT or related discipline and desirably with experience in a similar role.
• 5 years direct managerial experience of engineers and a career history of demonstrated progressive management experience.
• Excellent team building, communication, people management and management skills.
• Dynamic team player and mentor and can work effectively and proactively on a global team.
• Experienced in the medical device market and have a proven result driven record of accomplishment.

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.

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