Supplier Quality Engineer 1
Illumina
Position Summary
This position is involved in Supplier Quality activities that improve, monitor and measure Illumina’s compliance with the Quality System Regulations, Illumina Quality policies, FDA regulations and ISO standards as well as Illumina product quality for current operation and compliance objectives.
Responsibilities:
Support qualification of new Suppliers and Partners for materials and services including risk assessments, audits and other supplier on-boarding activities
Provide support to investigation teams in determining root causes on material quality issues and initiate/ensure corrective and preventive action plans are developed and executed
Interface with Suppliers/CM (Contract Manufacturer), Engineering / Manufacturing / Quality Assurance / Procurement departments to drive for quality improvements, specifically on incoming rejects, workmanship defects and primitive failures
Participate in Quality review activities with supplier/CM to identify improvement opportunities to meet quality expectation
Compile, evaluate and report on supplier/CM quality performance metrics for scorecard and monitoring
Monitor to ensure supplier’s preventive and corrective actions are implemented and effective
Participate with NPI team in selection of new suppliers
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.
Position Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field with 0-3 years of relevant experience
Experience in driving suppliers to improve quality performance
Experience in conducting supplier audits
Good understanding of FDA regulatory environment (CFR 820), 501k and ISO 13485 strongly preferred.
Experience in medical device / pharmaceutical / IVD is preferred
Developing basic knowledge of quality tools
Beginner to intermediate experience with Microsoft tools and spreadsheets, charting, graphing tools and presentation tools.
Experience with electronic production life (PLM), enterprise resource planning tools (SAP) and etc are preferred
Experience with statistical analysis packages, eg, JMP, Minitab are preferred
Detailed oriented, well organized and able to work independently and in teams.
Good communication and collaboration skills
Ability to travel as needed
All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.
Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.