Lead the effort in Supplier Quality Engineering by working directly with suppliers to improve product quality and to mitigate, control and resolve supplier quality issues. Take a leadership role in the team to improve supplier performance and ensure reliable supply chain. Enlist support from internal company personnel and departments as needed. Utilize standard and advance statistical techniques to determine product acceptance, evaluate process capabilities, and develop statistically sound tolerance limits. Serve as a member and lead auditor of process auditing team and as lead auditor for existing supplier base as required. Collect NCR, supplier corrective actions, deviations/concessions and related quality data for trending, scorecard maintenance and supplier performance reports to enable risk mitigation. Include such activities as supplier assessment, supplier/product qualification and test method alignment. Provide key supplier performance metrics to the department manager, senior management and key stakeholders.

Telecommuting permitted up to 40% within the Austin, Texas area.

Monday Friday, 40 hours per week.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelors degree in Engineering (any) plus 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related role in the Supplier Quality or Medical Device industry.

Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in all of the following:

Excel data manipulation, trend analysis, and KPI reporting; Non-Conformance management; CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive Action) management; and, Process Change Management (internal or supplier based).

Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in SmartSolve eQMS.

Must be willing to travel up to 50% of the time (10% International and 90% Domestic) to visit Smith & Nephew sites and suppliers.

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