Quality Engineer III
Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove
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About the role: Boston Scientific ranked #2 among medical device companies on Forbes America's Best Places to Work for Engineers 2026. Whether your passion lies in systems, software, human factors, or beyond, this is a place where you can grow your career and be part of something bigger-advancing science for life.
Provide Quality Engineering support to Maple Grove commercial and development manufacturing lines, ensuring the delivery of the highest quality product to the customer while supporting continuous improvement projects and quality initiatives. Partner with production and manufacturing engineers to support ongoing operations. This role supports the Nitinol Shape Memory (NSM) Business Unit within Maple Grove Operations.
Work model, sponsorship, relocation: This is an onsite role based at our Maple Grove, MN facility. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading or participating in projects to identify root cause and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Understanding nonconformance scope, implementing product/process controls, and determining release criteria.
- Investigating nonconformances and writing required documentation.
- Collecting and analyzing process defect data for product and process improvement efforts (e.g., scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data and performing appropriate analysis.
- Performing process validation and verification activities and reviewing related documentation.
- Supporting the development, qualification, and ongoing manufacturing of products to meet or exceed internal and external requirements.
- Developing and updating risk management deliverables.
- Evaluating the adequacy and compliance of systems, operations, and practices against regulations and company documentation.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
- Minimum of 3 years' relevant experience, specifically involving process validation and verification activities and risk management documentation such as Design/Process FMEAs.
- Knowledge of basic quality systems and good documentation practices.
Preferred qualifications:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Experience in the medical device field in a manufacturing support role.
- Experience providing quality support to manufacturing lines.
- Self-starter with the ability to identify improvement opportunities.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving projects to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects spanning diverse engineering disciplines (e.g., equipment qualification, process validation, test method validation).
- Prior interactions with disciplines such as manufacturing engineering, CAPA, risk management, supplier quality, and process engineering.
- Knowledge of analytical techniques, problem solving, and statistical analysis.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Familiarity with product/component documentation, inspection and testing, and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
Refer to ID 85904397 when applying