Supplier Quality Engineer

Kestra Medical Technologies•Kirkland, WA

45d

About The Position

The Kestra team has over 400 years of experience in the external and internal cardiac medical device markets. The company was founded in 2014 by industry leaders inspired by the opportunity to unite modern wearable technologies with proven device therapies. Kestra's solutions combine high quality and technical performance with a wearable design that provides the greatest regard for patient comfort and dignity. Innovating versatile new ways to deliver care, Kestra is helping patients and their care teams harmoniously monitor, manage, and protect life. The Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, life-saving products by managing supplier quality throughout the product lifecycle-from development through production. This role collaborates cross-functionally with R&D, Supply Chain, and external suppliers to assess and monitor supplier quality systems, drive process improvements, and ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards. Key responsibilities include supplier approval coordination, developing and maintaining weekly and monthly quality metrics-including Supplier Approvals, Scorecards, SCARs, and Process Quality-to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. Additionally, the role supports supplier audits and corrective action initiatives across the supply base.

Requirements

Passion: Contagious excitement about the company - sense of urgency. Commitment to continuous improvement.
Integrity: Commitment, accountability, and dedication to the highest ethical standards.
Collaboration/Teamwork: Inclusion of Team Member regardless of geography, position, and product or service.
Action/Results: High energy, decisive planning, timely execution.
Innovation: Generation of new ideas from original thinking.
Customer Focus: Exceed customer expectations, quality of products, services, and experience always present of mind.
Emotional Intelligence: Recognizes, understands, manages one's own emotions and is able to influence others. A critical skill for pressure situations.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains run charts, pareto charts and action trackers for Supplier in-process quality data.
Maintains supplier quality metrics and charts for supplier approvals and supplier SCARS.
Processes supplier approval requests and requests required data to support supplier approval.
Collects data and creates quarterly, and annual supplier scorecards.
Audits Supplier source inspection records and lot acceptance records.
Develops audit plans, conducts audits, writes audit reports, and manages corrective actions as required for low-medium risk suppliers with direction from Sr Supplier Quality Engineers.
Identifies and drives supplier continuous improvement through action plans and process qualification reviews and approvals.
Maintain supplier key performance indicators (KPIs) to support supplier score cards, and drive improvements.
Drive supplier quality MRB dispositions, root cause determination, and 8D corrective actions/supplier corrective action requests (SCAR).
Maintain 100% compliance with Kestra Medical processes and procedures.