Quality Engineer I - Exempt

Join our dynamic team in Plymouth, MN, where innovation meets quality. We are seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to contribute to our peripheral vascular business, focusing on products such as primary stents, balloon catheters, embolization capture devices, and extrusion. This is an exciting opportunity to work onsite and make a significant impact in the field of medical devices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials products.
• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design or specify inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Specialize in areas such as design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.

Technical Specialist Career Stream

As an individual contributor, you will be responsible for advancing existing technology or introducing new technology and therapies. You will formulate, deliver, and/or manage projects assigned and work with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. While primarily focused on self-development, you may act as a mentor to colleagues or direct the work of other lower-level professionals. The majority of your time will be spent delivering R&D, systems, or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation – while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Entry-level individual contributor on a project or work team. Works with close supervision.
• Organizational Impact: Delivers work of limited scope, typically smaller, less complex projects or related activities.
• Innovation and Complexity: Identifies, defines, and addresses problems that are not immediately evident but typically not difficult or complex. Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily with internal contacts within the immediate group. Contacts others to gather, confirm, and convey information.
• Leadership and Talent Management: N/A – job at this level is focused on self-development.
• Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A)), 0 years of experience required.