Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
Location: Based in Cirencester
Department: Quality
Join Corin and Help Shape Quality Excellence
At Corin, we are passionate about improving patient outcomes through innovative orthopaedic solutions. We are seeking an experienced and driven Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of materials and products supplied across our global supply chain.
This is an exciting opportunity for a quality professional who thrives on solving complex supplier challenges, driving continuous improvement, and influencing supplier performance within a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
The Role
As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will ensure that products and materials supplied to Corin meet manufacturing specifications, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. You will lead supplier quality improvement initiatives, investigate significant quality issues, and support the qualification and development of suppliers to enable business growth and operational excellence.
In addition, you will provide technical leadership and mentoring to colleagues within the Supplier Quality team, helping to strengthen quality expertise across the organisation.
What you’ll do
- Lead supplier quality improvement activities, working directly with suppliers to reduce defects and eliminate recurring quality issues.
- Drive investigations into significant supplier non-conformances, reviewing root cause analyses and corrective actions to ensure effective and sustainable resolutions.
- Analyse supplier performance and inspection data to identify trends and support risk-based decisions regarding supplier controls and incoming inspection requirements.
- Plan and conduct supplier audits and support the development and implementation of supplier improvement plans.
- Support the qualification, approval, and ongoing management of new suppliers and significant changes to existing suppliers.
- Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality teams to ensure product and process requirements are translated into effective supplier controls and inspection requirements.
- Support new product introductions and supplier transfer activities, ensuring supplier capability and quality controls are established prior to routine production.
- Provide coaching, technical guidance, and support to Supplier Quality Engineers and wider Quality team members.
- Support supplier-related CAPA activities and Change Control processes.
- Ensure compliance with Corin's Quality Management System, ISO 13485 requirements, and all applicable regulatory standards.
About You
We are looking for an experienced quality professional who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to influence suppliers and stakeholders effectively.
- Degree in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Extensive experience in a Quality Engineering role within a manufacturing environment, ideally within the medical device sector.
- Strong background in Supplier Quality Engineering, supplier development, and supplier qualification activities.
- Experience leading supplier audits, complex quality investigations, and supplier improvement programmes.
- Sound knowledge of ISO 13485 and medical device quality management system requirements.
- Strong practical understanding of:
- Root cause investigation methodologies
- Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
- Risk management principles
- Quality engineering tools and techniques
- Ability to independently lead supplier quality activities and make sound quality decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and support less experienced engineers.
Why Join Corin?
At Corin, you'll be part of a collaborative environment where innovation, quality, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do. We offer the opportunity to work on products that positively impact patients' lives while developing your career within a growing global organisation.
- A competitive salary from £45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience and a discretionary annual bonus of 7.5%
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Excellent pension – starts at 6%, going up to 9.7% after 18 months.
- Life assurance – Six times your basic salary
- Private medical insurance with BUPA for you and your family
- Free annual eye tests and flu vaccinations
- Employee referral program where you can earn up to £1,000 for each successful hire you recommend
If you are passionate about supplier quality, continuous improvement, and ensuring world-class standards within the medical device industry, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us deliver excellence through quality.
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Skills Required
- Degree in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Extensive experience in a Quality Engineering role within a manufacturing environment
- Experience in the medical device sector
- Strong background in Supplier Quality Engineering, supplier development, and supplier qualification
- Experience leading supplier audits, complex quality investigations, and supplier improvement programs
- Knowledge of ISO 13485 and medical device quality management system requirements
- Practical understanding of root cause investigation methodologies
- Practical understanding of Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
- Practical understanding of risk management principles
- Practical understanding of quality engineering tools and techniques
- Ability to independently lead supplier quality activities and make sound quality decisions
- Ability to coach, mentor, and support less experienced engineers
What We Do
As a leader in orthopaedic innovation, Corin has pioneered a number of landmark developments since its foundation and is proud to have been able to improve the quality of life of thousands of patients around the world through these groundbreaking products. The company’s talented and dedicated teams share a common commitment to deliver quality orthopaedic products and services to patients, surgeons and healthcare providers which exceed expectations and positively impact lives. With an increasingly active and demanding patient population, the need to provide state of the art conservative treatment pathways, in addition to more traditional interventions, has never been more important. Corin’s product portfolio is designed to provide each patient with the optimal solution, utilising some of the most advanced technologies available in the world to enhance implant longevity and performance.
