Supplier Quality Engineer

Job description

Your challenge

As the incumbent of this Quality & Regulatory (Q&R) role within Philips, your challenge will be to guide and support Business Groups, Markets and enabling functions to always do the right thing. This involves being a confident advisor on approval, regulatory compliance and quality management related topics, in order to achieve timely releases of innovative products that deliver high quality and outstanding reliability to the lives they will improve.

Do you want to Manages supplier quality activities for Haifa suppliers and participates in the Product Creation teams ?

Responsibilities

Working in the medical industry brings much fulfillment, as well as unique challenges. As part of our HealthTech – focused company, you will be responsible for successfully dealing with and managing Philips relationships with approval agencies such as the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA).

Key areas of responsibilities (KARS) for this role include:

Manage the Supplier On-Site assessment and auditing as part of the (new) supplier selection and approval process.

·  Be involved in PCP sourcing decisions identifying required supplier capability based upon the subcontracting or outsourcing level.
·  Manage the supplier capability assessment process as part of the supplier selection in subcontracting and outsourcing projects.
·  Identify possible gaps between required and available supplier capabilities and manage the risk with selected supplier during the project.
·  Own the formal release process for purchased products (PPA) in the project team including the handshake process with Manufacturing Engineering / Manufacturing Quality
·  Identify high risk and critical to quality suppliers and establish quality control approaches and supplier development plans with relevant suppliers assuring increasing supplier’s process maturity and outstanding product quality throughout the product life cycle
·  Support the execution of Project Agreements, Quality Agreements and Sustainability Agreements with suppliers.

Your team

As a result of Philips renewed commitment to Quality, it has recently restructured its organization to ensure you and your department have clear interfaces with Philips Business Group and Market leadership, and can harness the expertise of five Centers of Excellence (COEs). These 5 COEs specialize in the following capabilities: Regulatory & Clinical Affairs, Supplier Quality, Quality Management System, Quality Assurance & Engineering, and Compliance & Audit. As part of this new structure, you are empowered to use your voice and expertise to have a positive impact on your team, our business, and health technologies that will improve the health, well-being and care for people around the world.  

Philips Healthcare Solutions & Services (HISS)/ ICAP belongs to the most innovative Business in Royal Philips.

Associated locations and team members you will closely work with are located in India, Brazil, USA, and Netherlands. It is an additional challenge to work in such diverse cultural environment – but very exiting at the same time.

We are looking for:
A person who is excited by the unique professional challenges that our Quality Transformation presents, has strong technical competencies, and demonstrates resilience challenging, often demanding situations. We are looking for a perfectionist- a fixer who continuously strives for excellence as a way of life; not just as a job. We’re looking for someone who can inspire others to adopt this mentality of prioritizing quality above all else in a relentless pursuit to improve the quality of life for the billions of people our brand touches each year.

Specific skill requirements for this role include:

·  Relevant education (at least P.E), B.Sc. – An advantage. 
·  At least 2 years of relevant experience.
·  Good understanding of statistical methods, quality tools and methodologies (QFD, CtQ breakdown, DfSS, SPC, AQP, FMEA, Control Plan).
·  Six Sigma GB/ BB certification preferred.
·  Highly motivated, action oriented, persistent towards accomplishing tasks and drives for success.
·  Ability to communicate well, oral and written, in English and Hebrew.

Our offer
Quality is right on the top of Philips leadership agenda and that means you have the unique opportunity to come in and have a recognized voice to drive and witness exciting, transformational changes. You will be empowered to drive high quality, ground breaking innovations with a globally recognized, premium brand behind you. And when you are successful in this role’s mission, you will have an array of diverse career options open to you – across different functional areas, product lines, business groups and/or geographies. That is a commitment Philips Quality Leadership team has made and stands by.

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