Principal Supplier Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Principal Supplier Engineer, you’ll be the bridge between *** Cardiac Diagnostics (CDx) cutting-edge design leading the integration of new and existing technologies into CDx’s global supply chain. Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and speed at which life-changing devices reach patients. As the technical lead, you’ll work with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Regulatory team members to integrate OEM and sub-system supplier designs along with supplied components into CDx’s products to ensure compliance, performance, and safety requirements are met. This role has a wide scope of responsibilities ranging from ensuring supplier design assurance, supplier product development integration assurance, and third-party manufacturing assurance. You will apply strong engineering fundamentals to analyze supplied designs, assess supplier process capabilities, and drive corrective and preventive actions that enhance quality, reliability, and manufacturability. At CDx, collaboration across disciplines is key to our success.

Responsibilities include: Working with Medical Device OEM, sub-system and component suppliers to identify supplier specifications with the end goal of successfully integrating supplied designs and components into CDx’s development and manufacturing processes. Leads project teams working closely with Project Management to coordinate with R&D, Design Assurance, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations and Quality, to execute supplier control deliverables according to program needs, such as purchased material qualifications, supplier-driven change assessments, supplier design or capability improvement projects, or regulated compliance assessments. Generating and reviewing quality plans, agreements, product specifications, component qualifications, design verification/validations, and process validations. Investigating complaints and managing supplier investigations for both design and manufacturing-related issues. Participating in supplier audits to assess design and manufacturing compliance to regulatory standards and CDx agreed specification requirements. Audit activities include the evaluation of audit observations and findings, reporting, follow-up, and confirmation of follow-up actions. Acting as a technical expert to ensure repeatable and reproducible quality/reliability during the life of the product. Investigating and evaluating suppliers of new and existing technologies for use in future products or to improve quality/reliability of current products. Participating in risk assessment of supplier capability, supplier designs and supplier supply processes to support planning and execution including service risk mitigation measures to ensure continuity of supply for CDx. Coordinating all phases of supplier engineering work including content for projects and communicating emerging issues and recovery plans with site leadership and stakeholders to gain resources and support. 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

Preferred Qualifications: Design assurance experience with 10+ years working in Medical Device development

About the Company: US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To learn more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com. US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.