- Location
- Alajuela - Distrito Trece, Costa Rica
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Title
Sr. Supplier Quality EngineerJob Description
Sr Supplier Quality Engineer
Responsible for ensuring supplier quality performance, driving continuous improvement, and managing supplier-related risks across the product lifecycle in a regulated environment.
Responsible for ensuring supplier quality performance, driving continuous improvement, and managing supplier-related risks across the product lifecycle in a regulated environment.
Your role:
• Serves as the primary Supplier Quality Engineering point of contact for the Costa Rica facility, providing remote site support from Costa Rica and ensuring timely alignment with site Quality, Manufacturing, R&D, Sustaining Engineering, Procurement, and supplier stakeholders.
• Leads and owns MSA, PFMEA, Control Plan, SPC, PV&V, FAI, IQ/OQ/PQ, and related APQP / PPAP activities to ensure supplier process capability, validation readiness, and compliance with quality requirements.
• Leads APQP / PPAP execution for supplier transfers, supplier changes, SICRs, and sustaining projects supporting the Costa Rica manufacturing facility.
• Facilitates Design for Excellence collaboration between R&D, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing, and suppliers to improve design quality, manufacturability, supplier process robustness, and long-term product performance.
• Ensures Critical to Quality characteristics are clearly defined, flowed down to suppliers, validated through appropriate controls, and maintained throughout production.
• Leads supplier audits, including initial qualification, for-cause, and follow-up audits, to assess supplier compliance with applicable quality system requirements, regulatory expectations, process controls, and supplier agreement obligations.
• Leads supplier qualification activities for addition to the Approved Supplier List, including supplier capability assessment, quality system maturity evaluation, technical readiness, risk classification, approval documentation, and onboarding completion.
• Leads supplier-related non-conformance investigations, including defect analysis, supplier-cause determination, containment, risk assessment, escalation, and disposition support.
• Initiates, coordinates, and manages Supplier Corrective Action Requests, ensuring effective root cause analysis, corrective/preventive action implementation, verification of effectiveness, and timely closure.
• Drives systemic supplier improvement using supplier performance data, NC trends, audit outcomes, SCAR history, defect recurrence, and process capability indicators.
You're the right fit if:
• 7 years of experience in Quality, Manufacturing, or Supplier Quality Engineering, preferably within regulated industries such as medical devices.
• Strong expertise in supplier quality management, data analysis, root cause analysis, CAPA methodologies, process validation, audits, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of global medical device regulations and standards, familiarity with statistical tools and quality methods, strong cross‑functional collaboration skills, and a proactive, risk‑based mindset.
• Strong expertise in supplier quality management, data analysis, root cause analysis, CAPA methodologies, process validation, audits, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of global medical device regulations and standards, familiarity with statistical tools and quality methods, strong cross‑functional collaboration skills, and a proactive, risk‑based mindset.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips.
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Skills
ComplianceSupply Chain ManagementProcurement
