Your role as a Supplier Quality Engineer

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of purchased materials, components, and services used in our medical products. You work closely with suppliers and internal teams to ensure products meet all applicable quality and regulatory requirements. At the same time, you actively contribute to continuous improvement and a stable, reliable supply chain.

This role is based in Kerkrade, the Netherlands.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you will work with different teams and suppliers to continuously improve quality throughout the supply chain. You will have a high level of responsibility and play an active role in preventing, analysing, and resolving quality-related issues within a regulated medical environment. Other responsibilities include:

• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance using KPIs and scorecards
• Initiate and support supplier improvement projects
• Perform supplier audits, both on-site and remotely, to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements
• Conduct risk analyses related to suppliers, processes, materials, and components
• Investigate and follow up on supplier-related non-conformities and corrective actions
• Support Incoming Quality Control and resolve quality issues impacting operations or customer satisfaction
• Manage and follow up on supplier changes, including impact assessments and change control activities
• Contribute to internal and external audits and maintain up-to-date compliance documentation
• Review and follow up on supplier documentation such as specifications, certificates, validation data, and reports

Who you are

You feel comfortable in an environment where quality truly matters. You are able to maintain oversight, ask the right questions, and collaborate effectively with suppliers and colleagues to solve problems in a practical and sustainable way. You work accurately without losing sight of the bigger picture, and you work in a structured and accurate manner, even when priorities change.

• You have experience in Supplier Quality or Quality Engineering, preferably within medical technology or healthcare
• You are familiar with Quality Management Systems such as ISO 13485
• You have experience with supplier management and can address quality-related topics in a professional and constructive way
• You have knowledge of CAPA and change control processes
• You are familiar with quality tools such as root cause analysis, 8D, and risk management
• You have a pragmatic, hands-on mindset and focus on solutions
• You are comfortable working in an international environment and collaborating with people from different cultures
• You are willing to travel for supplier audits and visits 

What you can expect

At Technomed, You will work in an international and growing organization within the medical sector, where quality plays an important role in everything we do. In this position, you will have plenty of responsibility and work closely with different teams and suppliers to continuously improve processes. The working environment is hands-on, with short communication lines and a strong focus on collaboration. In addition, you can expect:

• A competitive salary and benefits package aligned with your experience
• Opportunities for personal and professional development through training and education
• A hands-on working environment with short communication lines
• A collaborative team culture where initiative and teamwork are encouraged
• A high level of responsibility and the opportunity to contribute to improvements 

Who we are

We believe that technology can have a major impact on patients' lives. Our products transduce a bioelectric signal from patient to medical device to assess nerve, muscle and brain activity. Technomed Engineering BV is part of the international Welcony group. Welcony is a global leader in neurotechnology supporting thousands of research labs, clinics, hospitals and universities focussing on mental health, brain disorders, cognitive neuroscience and neuromonitoring. We have four brands and one mission: 'To bring the best minimally invasive neurotechnology to market for researchers, clinicians and patients.' Our brands are: Magstim - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), MagstimEGI - High-Density EEG, Technomed - Clinical Neurophysiology and Neurosign - Neuromonitoring.

This position is for our Technomed | Neurosign brand with headquarters in Kerkrade and its own production facility in Indonesia.