Principal Supplier Quality Engineer

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Quality Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Principal Supplier Quality Engineer – Shockwave Medical to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview

The Principal Supplier Quality Engineer performs work with minimal guidance to provide and implement solutions to broad problems and accomplishes complex assignments. The scope of responsibilities includes supporting manufacturing operations, managing suppliers, and working with cross-functional groups to address quality issues. The Principal Supplier Quality Engineer makes decisions related to scope of work, risk management, process improvements, material disposition, and the implementation of revised product specifications.

Essential Job Functions

Supplier Management

• Partner with Procurement, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Suppliers in the timely investigation, resolution, and prevention of supplier quality issues which could disrupt business operations
• Define, monitor, and analyze supplier performance metrics; identify improvement opportunities and implement improvement projects; identify and address supplier risks and/or opportunities and communicate to the next management level
• Create Supplier Audit Schedules based on QMS procedures, component risk levels, supplier performance metrics, and input from Management Reviews
• Plan, schedule, execute, report, and follow-up on supplier audits
• Initiate, issue, review, and approve Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCARs)
• Drive corrective actions for supplier processes by driving suppliers to true root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions
• Own, manage, and drive to completion Supplier Change Assessments (SCAs)
• Act as the technical lead supporting regulatory submissions
• Lead component qualification change projects in collaboration with key business partners and the supplier’s applicable functional groups
• Compile, analyze, and summarize supplier performance data for Supplier Scorecards
• Assist in preparing Supplier Quality Agreements
• Map Supplier Management processes, perform gap analysis, and define and implement improvement projects

Manufacturing Support

• Review, investigate, disposition, and drive to completion Non-conforming Reports (NCRs) and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs)
• Initiate, review, and approve Document Change Orders (DCOs)
• Provide technical support and guidance to the Quality Control group
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to lower-level engineers
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering on process improvement projects
• Investigate customer co