Senior Supplier Engineer

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

About the role:
The Senior Supplier Engineer will focus on value improvement projects, new product introduction, and sustaining projects for the Connectors and Cable Assemblies category team, to include Sourced Finished Medical Devices (SFMD). This role partners with cross-functional groups to resolve complex and critical supplier-related issues, while improving supplier performance, mitigating risks for supplied materials and driving strategies to support supply chain objectives. The daily work involves being part of the new product development core team, owning the manufacturing deliverables at the supplier, and supporting sustaining projects.  

 

Work model, sponsorship, relocation:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Working with suppliers around the globe to understand assembly and finished good manufacturing processes and acts as technical expert to ensure repeatable and reproducible quality/reliability during the life of the product
• As a technical lead, actively engaging in Global Sourcing category teams, establishing and executing Global Sourcing category objectives
• Investigating and evaluating new and existing technologies for use in future products or to improve quality/reliability of current product
• Interfacing with suppliers and category team members to support investigation of supplied material issues or supply constraints.
• Collaborating with R&D, manufacturing and process development teams on electrical and mechanical design requirements for new product development
• Partnering with manufacturing, quality, and/or sustaining R&D/DA/PM to execute changes initiated by BSC or by the Suppliers, such as improvement projects, supplier capability, capacity projects, and compliance projects
• Coordinating all phases of supplier engineering work content for projects; communicate emerging issues and recovery action plans with site leadership and stakeholders to gain resources and support 
• Identifying and executing material cost reduction projects to meet Plant, Division, and Category goals. Influences cross-functional team members to support and drive value improvement projects
• In all actions, demonstrating a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.

 

Required qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline  
• Minimum 5 years of technical experience supporting complex mechanical or electrical systems
• Ability to travel 10-20% domestic and international

 

Preferred qualifications: 

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop internal and external relationships 
• Effective problem-solving and critical thinking analytical skills; results-driven

• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Self-driven and self-motivated to learn and apply knowledge to produce results
• Organized and detail-oriented; ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
• Working knowledge of statistical methods, six sigma methodologies, and problem-solving methodologies
• Experience working in medical device or a similar GMP environment 
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to drive project deliverables
• Experience working