We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 18 Jul 2025
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Engineering Director - Supplier Quality | Diabetes
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
This position will be located on-site in Northridge, CA
In this exciting role as an Engineering Director - Supplier Quality, you will have responsibility for leading a team of Supplier Quality Managers and SQE’s located in the Northridge, CA, and Juncos, PR manufacturing sites. You will develop long term strategic relationships and alliances with key internal and external stakeholders and communicate and conduct briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
Your team will be accountable for changes to existing supplied products and processes, as well as oversight of performance and improvement activities.
The Engineering Director - Supplier Quality is responsible for leading and overseeing the supplier quality assurance and management functions. This role ensures that all suppliers meet the company’s quality standards, regulatory requirements, and performance objectives. The successful candidate will drive supplier quality improvements, manage supplier audits, and develop strategic initiatives to enhance supplier performance and partnerships.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.
Develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.
Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.
Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Travel up to 25% may be required between manufacturing and supplier sites.
Accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives.
Providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives through performance goals and targets.
Conducting performance reviews.
Staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.
Bachelor’s Degree required.
Minimum 10 years of relevant Manufacturing (internal & external) Supplier Quality Engineering experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, OR Advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant Manufacturing (internal & external) Supplier Quality Engineering experience with 7+ years of managerial experience.
Nice to Have
Experience in Medical, Pharmaceutical or highly regulated product industry.
DMAIC Lean / Six Sigma Certification and demonstrated experience leading DMAIC Projects.
Experience in multiple Quality related functions.
Highly results oriented and focused on business priorities.
Strong leadership and influencing skills to drive results in a highly matrixed organization.
Strong Business and Quality perspective.
Strong change management and transformation skills.
Excellent Communication/Presentation Skills.
Excellent Interpersonal and Talent Management skills.
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.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$194,400.00 - $291,600.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
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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.
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