Supplier Quality Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world-changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary

This position is involved in Supplier Quality activities that improve, monitor, and measure Illumina’s compliance with the Quality System Regulations, Illumina Quality policies, FDA regulations, and ISO standards as well as Illumina product quality for current operation and compliance objectives.

Position Responsibilities

• Support qualification of new Suppliers and Partners for materials and services including risk assessments, audits and other supplier on-boarding activities.
• Provide support to investigation teams in determining root causes on material quality issues and initiate/ensure corrective and preventive action plans are developed and executed.
• Interface with Suppliers/CM (Contract Manufacturer), Engineering/Manufacturing/Quality Assurance/Procurement departments to drive for quality improvements, specifically on incoming rejects, workmanship defects, and primitive failures.
• Participate in Quality review activities with supplier/CM to identify improvement opportunities to meet quality expectation.
• Constantly review quality processes and suggest improvements that can be implemented to improve performances.

• Monitor to ensure supplier’s preventive and corrective actions are implemented and effective.
• Participate with NPI team in selection of new suppliers.
• Other such duties that may be determined by Management.

Position Requirements

• Experience in directly working with Contract Manufacturer/Suppliers.
• Experience in conducting supplier audits.
• Developing basic knowledge of quality tools.
• Beginning to intermediate experience with Microsoft tools and spreadsheets, charting, graphing tools and presentation tools.

• May have experience with electronic production life (PLM), enterprise resource planning tools (SAP), etc.
• May have experience with statistical analysis packages, e.g., JMP, Minitab.
• Must be detail-oriented, well organized, and able to work independently and in teams.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel as needed.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills

• Good understanding of FDA regulatory environment (CFR 820), 501k and ISO 13485 strongly preferred.
• Experience in medical device/pharmaceutical/IVD is preferred.
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field with 0-3 years of experience.

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