Supplier Quality Engineer

You are responsible for ensuring superior quality performance at supplier partners. Proactively manage, monitor, and troubleshoot supplier-related issues. This includes conducting investigations of defects, providing quality oversight of product/process change requests, developing process validation plans, and assuring technical quality of suppliers, manufacturers, and OEMs.

Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in engineering science (Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent)
• 3+ years of experience in Supplier Quality, Supplier Evaluation, Data Analysis, DFX Methodology, Process Validation, Continuous Improvement
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal skills
• Ability to perform minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements
• US work authorization
• Reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN

Perks & Benefits

• Generous PTO
• 401k (up to 7% match)
• HSA (with company contribution)
• Stock purchase plan
• Education reimbursement

In this role you

You are responsible for ensuring superior quality performance at supplier partners. Proactively manage, monitor, and troubleshoot supplier-related issues.

Your role:

• Conducts thorough investigations of defects to determine if they are supplier-caused and implement corrections using the SCAR process.
• Proactively manage, monitor, and troubleshoot supplier-related issues for quality of components, sub-assemblies, and assemblies including monitoring trends and managing Supplier Improvement and Supplier Quality Performance Monitoring.
• Providing Quality oversight of product/process change requests from suppliers (SICRs: Supplier Initiated Chage Requests), ensuring appropriate regulatory review and adequate validation to support requested changes including following our APQP process and leading process validation, as necessary.
• Develop and oversee process validation plans, including equipment qualifications, with suppliers and lead continuous improvement projects based on process/product trends, customer complaints, industry standards and government regulations.
• Assuring technical quality of suppliers, manufacturers, and OEMs is maintained and acceptance criteria are in alignment with component/product use and customer expectations.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Prefer 3+ years of experience in Supplier Quality, Supplier Evaluation, Data Analysis, DFX Methodology, Process Validation, Continuous Improvement.
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal skills to be able to effectively interface interdepartmentally and complete assignments with accuracy and a high attention to detail.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Office/Remote

position.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN.

#LI-PHI

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.