Supplier Qa Eng - P2 jobs at Boston Scientific in Costa Rica, Alajuela

Drives improvement and corrective actions in the quality of components sourced from external suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities. Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generate and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Train inspectors to these procedures.
• Develop and/or source inspection tools and equipment.
• Assist in generating component specifications.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
• Analyses incoming material defects. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary. Communicates issues to suppliers.
• Review new design specifications and provide input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigate field failures related to supplier materials. Develop corrective action plan when necessary.
• Support New Product Developments and review documentation related to suppliers and components.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Material Science, Chemical, Industrial, Electronic, Biotechnology, Electromechanical, Engineering or related field.
• English Level desired: 80% - 89%.
• At least 2 years of experience in similar position.
• Desired knowledge: ASQ certification, problem solving and strong communication skills.

Costa Rica-Coyol

About the role

This position is the entry level to professional engineering work. This is a developmental position working under close supervision and receiving specific and detailed instructions as to required tasks and results expected. Area of work involves processes related to qualification and assessment of supplied materials.

Job responsibilities include:

• Performs a variety of routine technical tasks which provide experience and familiarization with the engineering methods, practices, products and programs of the materials function. Examples include completion of First Article reports, CMA forms, NCEP investigations and creation of Change Requests. This position allows time and latitude to learn the basic business processes, and assumes that guidance from more senior engineering staff, managers and mentors will be provided to aid development.
• Supports more senior engineers with project tasks including any of the following: writing and/or verifying specifications for raw materials & manufacturing supplies; creation of inspection procedures; development of test methods.
• Interfaces with suppliers with support from senior engineering staff and commodity team members to support investigation of supplied material issues or supply constraints.
• Execute NCEP investigations to determine assignable causes for defective components at receiving inspection. Support NCEP investigations where defects in supplied materials are identified elsewhere in production. Uses statistical tools with support from senior engineering staff. Demonstrates basic report writing skill.
• Assists in troubleshooting processes on-site at supplier facility, generally under supervision or to a plan agreed to be senior engineering staff
• May Interact regularly with component suppliers via email or telephone. Review and interpret information provided by suppliers for engineering accuracy and adherence to global material standard designations, and use own technical expertise and other internal experts to assess if gaps in the material information provided can be filled through further discovery or analysis.
• May Work with little to no supervisory work direction to obtain or create complete and accurate material composition information on assigned components. Utilize corporate software tools to query the global material database to search for information. Consistently create and maintain highly accurate product data at all times.
• Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with internal team members about the status of assigned component assessments.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Materials or related field
• No previous experience required
• Advanced English level (B2/70-79%)