Senior Supplier Quality Assurance Engineer (Fixed-Term Contract, 12 Months)

Ensure thorough knowledge of ResMed’s Quality system to work within established policies and procedures, compliance with GMP, regulatory requirements and other business systems.  

Operate autonomously whilst interacting effectively with and seeking input from team members and other areas of the business including, Logistics/Distribution, Procurement, Product Development Team, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Quality to ensure the supplier meets ResMed quality requirements.  

Apply a risk-based approach in improving ResMed processes while maintaining quality compliance.  

Monitor supplier quality performance metrics and trends, escalating emerging quality signals and trends to appropriate leaders and stakeholders in a timely manner.  

Initiate programs to improve supplier performance systematically and reduce cost of poor quality, utilizing digitalization and data analytics  

Ensure timely communication of issues that affect supplier quality and delivery capability to the relevant stakeholders across the organization.  

Educate and support suppliers in their use of various quality prevention tools to ensure defect free products.  

Drive continuous improvement activities at suppliers to include product quality cycle and delivery performance through use of standard metrics and six sigma  

Drive supplier and sub-supplier performance to include identifying and driving supplier process improvements, root cause analysis, and corrective actions with sufficient breadth and depth  

Maintain lessons learned from various investigations to assist in development and sharing of best practice.  

Work within a Project Team environment and perform other tasks as requested to assist the business reach and maintain its goals.