Job Description Summary

The Lead Supplier Quality Engineer for Magnetic Resonance Imaging will drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. Execute project management of complex new product introductions for supplier management activities. Select suppliers through qualification processes. Own supplier results, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

This role is a hybrid role that will require onsite support and will also allow for flexibility to work from home.

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world. 

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Includes both Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality Development. Includes supplier qualifications, corrective action plans, audits, performance monitoring, and assisting key suppliers towards industrial standards of excellence. SQEs have various levels of differentiation which are related to level of technical understanding of engineering drawings and ability to manage vendors.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired expertise to execute functional policy/strategy.
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor, with proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business about design and coordination services rendered. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.
• Impacts projects, processes, and procedures in own field. The role operates with some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities/provision of advice within an enabling discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Activities require professional judgment but may require more senior levels of guidance.
• Utilizes technical expertise and judgement to solve problems. Leverages technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 4 years of experience; OR an Associate's degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, supplier quality or quality assurance
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel spreadsheet development and analysis
• Effective problem solving, root-cause analytical skills to lead and influence others to drive change (cross-functionally and globally)

Desired Characteristics

• Ability to manage complex projects ensuring all required deliverables are executed on time and in a compliant manner
• Ability to make risk-based decisions in a compliant manner
• Experience working within medical device industry
• Supplier Management experience
• Working knowledge of Lean methodology or Six Sigma principles
• ASQ, ISO13485, CSQP or other relevant supplier management related certifications
• Ability to travel 10% - 25% of the time

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors:  to act with humility and build trust, lead with transparency, deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.



Additional Information

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.