Senior Supplier Quality Engineer – at BD Bengaluru, Apply Now!
Are you passionate about quality and innovation in medical technology? BD, one of the world’s largest MedTech companies, is hiring a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer for a hybrid role in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Join a purpose-driven team dedicated to advancing global health, supporting high-quality production, and transforming challenges into life-changing solutions.
Job Posting: Senior Supplier Quality Engineer at BD
Job ID: R-510059
Optional Skills: Statistical methods, Quality Assurance Certification, Problem-solving
Primary Work Location: IND Bengaluru – Technology Campus
Additional Locations: Varies
Work Shift: Varies
Job Description
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Quality
In our Quality team, we collaborate on a large scale, focusing on making sure everything is correct, effective and efficient to bring the highest-quality and most competitive products and services to our customers and their patients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guidance on supplier-related projects relative to products, policies, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborates with cross functional partners such as Quality Engineering, R&D, Operations, Medical, Marketing to onboard new suppliers and seek their support in addressing supplier quality issues.
- Implement Supplier Quality Management best practices.
- Key contact/liaison with Quality departments to drive consistency in practices as needed.
- Develops training content and provides supplier quality systems related training at the Unit and Manufacturing Site locations.
- Performs Supplier audits and conduct supplier quality ongoing assessments as required including for-cause audits, and complete follow-up and closure of any non-conformances.
- Conduct supplier quality ongoing assessments as required including for-cause audits, and complete follow-up and closure of any non-conformances.
- Author, negotiate, and finalize Quality Agreements with suppliers
- Support identification of prospective suppliers
- Facilitate, manage, and track supplier progress toward Approved status, supporting both new product development launches and sustaining engineering changes
- Provide Supplier Quality Assurance support to all existing suppliers and assigned projects (including suppliers for new product development).
- Collect and archive all relevant Supplier documentation and required statements.
- Support Supplier Quality performance monitoring as Supplier Quality Engineer.
- Manage changes initiated by suppliers while coordinating with the appropriate project teams
- Support problem solving activities with assigned Suppliers related to escalated customer complaints or manufacturing deviations
Qualifications & Skills:
- Must demonstrate a working understanding of the pertinent Quality Systems Regulations (i.e.: Good Manufacturing Practices, ISO, FDA, MDSAP, MDD/MDR).
- Lead Auditor experience required; certified lead auditor preferred.
- Proven ability to develop solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity, using policies and procedures for guidance.
- Capable of using Microsoft programs and ability to learn other systems.
- Working knowledge of statistical methods as well as statistical application software.
- Working knowledge of Part Production Approval Process (PPAP).
- Effective verbal and written communication skills preferred for Supplier Quality Engineer.
- The ability to work in teams and independently with minimal supervision to obtain results as required.
- Must be self-motivated/directed, organized, detail oriented and have ability to multi-task projects.
- Professional certification is an advantage (i.e. CQA, CQE, SQE, CQM, Six Sigma, etc.).
- Ability to travel 15-20%
Education and Experience:
- BS degree in Life Science or Engineering highly preferred
- A minimum of 5 years relevant experience or a combination of equivalent education and relevant experience.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience as Internal and/or Supplier Lead Auditor
Why Join Us?
A career at BD offers you a supportive and inclusive work environment where you can learn, grow, and make a difference in the world of healthcare. Join us in reinventing the future of health and contributing to a better tomorrow.
Keywords: Supplier Quality Engineer, Job, Medical Technology, Quality Assurance
