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Job description
The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer serves as a liaison between suppliers and Stryker to drive effective continuous improvement to the supply base. Works with internal customers and suppliers to support supplier quality issues and provide technical support for activities related to supplier quality system assessment, performance evaluation and quality improvement projects.
The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer collaborates with the strategic sourcing, auditing and development groups to understand capabilities and competencies of suppliers to fulfill quality and regulatory requirements.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Assess and critique supplier processes and control documentation and drive improvement in the supplier QMS
- Support tracking and reporting of KPIs and other metrics associated with supplier performance
- Articulate detailed supplier performance results and trends to appropriate levels of management
- Propose and develop effective quality improvement plans to be implemented at appropriate suppliers
- Maintain and track completion of supplier action plans
- Provide training and problem-solving expertise at supplier locations, as needed
- Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities at suppliers
- Transfer lessons learned from the supply base to internal functions for inclusion into next generation designs
- Train, mentor and assist in the development of less experienced engineers
- Provide support in third party audits relating to supplier quality engineering deliverables
- May act as a single point of contact for Strategic Business Partners and participate in supplier reviews
- Serve as a subject matter expert, for assigned commodity; share expertise within global Stryker organization
- Additional duties, as assigned
What you need
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- 3+ years experience in a similar position in manufacturing environment
- Experience in a highly regulated environment preferred.
- Lead Quality Auditor Qualification preferred (ISO 13485, CFR 820 or comparable standard / regulation).
- Basic knowledge of FMEA, validation programs and SPC processes.
- Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, prints, tolerancing, statistics and project management.
- Knowledge and understanding of US and International Medical Device Regulations.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness
insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and
tobacco cessation program.
Financial benefits include:Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs),
401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.
Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient
and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients
annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to
customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of
their role.