Staff Supplier Quality Engineer

Ethicon, A member of Johnson & Johnson's family of companies, is currently recruiting for a Staff Supplier Quality Engineer to join the team in Cincinnati, OH. 

Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 60 years from creating the first sutures, to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures. Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world's most pressing health care issues and improve and save more lives. Through Ethicon's surgical technologies and solutions including sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treat serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact. For more information, visit www.ethicon.com (http://www.ethicon.com/). 

The position of Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for support and leadership of Quality Engineering activities in New Product Development and ongoing manufacturing – including resolution of non-conformances (root cause & corrective action), CAPA, Quality System and process improvement activities.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES*

Under limited supervision and in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position:

•  Will provide leadership in design & implementation of outstanding quality engineering to support entire product life cycle with focus on quality engineering activities such as reliability, root cause/corrective action risk management, analytics/statistical techniques, requirements management, verification & validation, and design control across the lifecycle of the products.

•  Will be responsible for driving correction, corrective action, prevention, detection of defects at earliest phase of product design, continuous improvement & customer satisfaction.

•  Provide leadership, technical expertise to ensure conformance to ISO, FDA (Food & Drug Administration) & MDD (Medical Devices Directive) based quality systems.

•  Provide review and approvals for the release of new products ensuring quality requirements are met.

•  Provide leadership & support to J&J process excellence initiatives including Six-Sigma, design excellence & lean thinking.

•  Direct development & consistent application of quality policies & procedures in product design & development, secondary development, manufacturing, external manufacturers & suppliers.

•  Follow J&J and EES Records Management Policies for Convenience Information, Records Retention Schedules, Training and Education, Document Hold Notices, Records Cleanout, Inactive Records and Information Management, Vital Records and third party vendor if applicable. 

•  For those who supervise or lead a staff, responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable.