Senior Design Quality Engineer - #1411274

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for Design Quality Senior Engineer supporting single use devices for use with medical electrical equipment/systems (MEE) within the BSC’s Interventional Cardiology division. This position supports a major product category with high visibility which will provide the right candidate with excellent growth potential and sustaining engineering experience. In a hybrid work mode, the Design Quality Senior Engineer will support a team of engineers and technicians to apply the directives of design controls to projects such as design changes, regulatory and standards compliance, corrective and preventive actions, improvements for manufacturability, and cost-reduction efforts.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our Maple Grove office three days per week.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Responsible for design control and risk management of next-generation medical devices
• Uses clinical knowledge to influence how devices they are working on are tested and designed
• Applies sound, systematic problem-solving methodologies in identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and resolving quality issues
• Independently, or as a member of a team, develops, directs, and executes plans for design control and risk management of complex projects
• Leads the implementation and development of product risk management tools (i.e. Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree, FMEAs)
• Demonstrates good working knowledge and application of validation and statistical techniques in order to comply with associated regulatory requirements and internal standards
• Adds to and promotes the culture of quality-centric patient care and customer satisfaction within the New Product Development team
• Promotes and influences compliance to BSC’s quality, business and health & safety systems and market/legal regulations
• Provides quality input (SME and/or independent reviewer) as required, at defined project/product/process milestones (e.g., design reviews, project design plans, design/process changes to existing product lines).
• Keeps up to date on all ISO/EN/FDA/MDR and other Product Development-related regulatory requirements and relays this information to the Product Development group
  
  

Required Qualifications

What we’re looking for in you:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science discipline, or equivalent.

Minimum of 5 years experience in design assurance, quality, or related medical device or regulated industry experience

ISO 13485, ISO 14971, CFRs, and Quality System Regulations understanding & demonstrated use

Strong communication skills (verbal & written) and presentation skills

Problem solver, capable of facilitating the problem-solving process & driving issues to closure

Excellent organizational and planning skills; drives for results

Travel approximately

Preferred Qualifications

• Focus on detailed work with emphasis on accuracy and completeness
• Ability to collaborate and work on a highly matrixed and global team
• Experience with Class III Medical Devices
  
  

Requisition ID: 608192

Minimum Salary: $ 82600

Maximum Salary: $ 156900

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com--will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement. The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.