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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 Certificatio