Sr Supplier Quality Engineer

3 Months ago • 3-5 Years • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Sr Supplier Quality Engineer at Illumina is responsible for ensuring supplier quality and compliance with regulations, quality policies, and product requirements. This role involves selecting new suppliers, leading qualification activities, participating in new product development, driving process improvements, updating purchasing control procedures, and providing quality assurance expertise. The engineer will also lead qualification activities, maintain goals and metrics, conduct supplier audits, investigate failures, and work with strategic partners. The position requires strong communication, project management, and problem-solving skills. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing change, and mitigating risks. The role also involves a certain percentage of travel.
Must have:
  • Experience with cross-functional teams
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Experience with Quality and Project Management
  • Experience with Non-conformance Handling and Risk Management
  • Capability in leading change and mitigating risks
  • Experience in Supplier Quality and Management
  • Experience with electronic product life cycle systems
Good to have:
  • Experience in FDA and ISO regulated environments
  • Experience with statistical analysis packages

Job Details

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Position Summary: This position is responsible for Supplier Quality activities that improve, monitor and measure Illumina’s compliance with the Quality System Regulations, Illumina’s Quality policies, FDA regulations and ISO standards as well as Illumina product quality requirements for current operational objectives. Participates in continuous improvement activities of Illumina’s suppliers, purchased parts and purchasing controls. Responsibilities:
  • Responsible in selection of new suppliers and partners for materials and services
  • Responsible for leading evaluation and qualification activities of Suppliers providing direct material/service.
  • Participate as a core/extended Quality team member of new product development and sustaining teams to assure processes are in place to design and release highly reliable and safe products
  • Drives process, quality and product improvements through supplier development activities, risk management, identification and resolution of current and potential issues
  • Responsible for updates to purchasing control procedures and processes as needed to stay compliant to quality system requirements and regulations. Provides Quality Assurance expertise and guidance for New Product Development, Manufacturing Operations, Supplier Development, and Product Quality
  • Leads purchased material qualification/re-qualification activities such as performance qualification, process validation, first article inspection, measurement gage analysis and capability studies
  • Maintain goals and metrics for existing and new products, regularly reporting on the progress to reach departmental objectives
  • Leads supplier audits to drive process standardization and continuous improvement
  • Identify opportunities for reduced inspection of purchased materials based on risk and quality performance
  • Leads and facilitates failure investigations; ensuring mitigations and corrective actions are implemented in a timely manner
  • Make recommendations, and drive programs to improve purchased material and supplier performance
  • Reviews non-conformance and CAPA reports to identify actions needed to track and improve program health by site or globally.
  • Works with strategic partners and suppliers to ensure global awareness and compliance to procedures and specifications
  • Ensures effective transfer of Suppliers from development to production activities
  • Ability to provide training to other team members to ensure consistency and compliance to processes and procedures.
Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs. Requirements:
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional product development and operational teams
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Experience with Quality, Project Management, and Process Engineering methodologies and tools
  • Experience with Non-conformance Handling, Failure Investigation (CAPA/SCAR) and Risk Management (FMEA) activities.
  • Demonstrated capability in successfully managing and leading change
  • Practice identifying, mitigating, and resolving risks
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting and competing priorities
  • Demonstrated experience in Supplier Quality and Management activities such as component qualification, audits, risk assessments.
  • Experience with electronic product life cycle (PLM) systems such as Agile, SAP or other PLM systems.
  • Practical experience in FDA and ISO regulated environments is a plus
  • Experience with statistical analysis packages such as JMP and Minitab is a plus
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed. Estimate 25% of the time.
All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities. Experience/Education:
  • BS or equivalent in a technical discipline with 5+ years of experience.
  • MS in a technical discipline with 3+ years of experience.
  • PHD in a technical discipline with 1-3 years of experience.
  • Experience working in a regulated environment, in-vitro diagnostics preferred.

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About The Company

At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies and revolutionary assays to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. These studies will help make the realization of personalized medicine possible. With such rapid advances in technology taking place, it is mission critical to have solutions that are not only innovative, but flexible, scalable, and complete with industry-leading support and service. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and prioritizing the needs of its customers, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina’s innovative, array-based solutions for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis serve as tools for disease research, drug development, and the development of molecular tests in the clinic.



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