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:

The Supplier Engineer focusses on value improvement initiatives, new product introduction and sustaining projects for the Connectors and Cable Assemblies (C&CA) category team. This role partners with cross-functional groups to resolve supplier-related issues, while improving supplier performance, mitigating risks for supplied materials, and driving strategies to support supply chain objectives. NOTE: This is a hybrid position, which will require you to work on-site at least 3 days per week.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with suppliers globally to understand assembly and finished good manufacturing processes and acts as technical expert to ensure repeatable and reproducible quality during the life of the product
• Serving as a technical lead and collaborating with Global Sourcing teams to establish and execute category objectives
• Interfacing with suppliers and category team to support investigation of supplied material issues or supply constraints.
• Collaborating with R&D, manufacturing, and process development teams on electrical and mechanical design requirements for new product development
• Partnering with manufacturing, quality, and/or sustaining R&D/DA/PM to execute changes initiated by BSC or by the suppliers, such as improvement projects, supplier capability, capacity projects, and compliance projects
• Coordinating supplier engineering work content for projects; communicate emerging issues and recovery action plans
• Identifying and executing material cost reduction projects to meet plant, division, and category goals.
• Maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline
• Minimum 4 years of technical experience supporting complex mechanical or electrical systems
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to drive project deliverables
• Ability to travel up to 20% (globally)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in medical device or a similar GMP environment
• Working knowledge of statistical methods, six sigma methodologies, and problem-solving methodologies
• Effective problem-solving and critical thinking analytical skills; results-driven
• Self-driven and self-motivated to learn and apply knowledge to produce results
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with ability to develop internal and external relationships
• Organized and detail-oriented; ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects

Requisition ID: 592887

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

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’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

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.