Supplier Quality Engineer

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Royston, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England, GBR
In-Office
Entry level
Biotech
The Role
Supplier Quality Engineer responsible for assessing and monitoring suppliers, identifying compliance gaps, managing deviations and complaints, validating supplier changes, and verifying corrective actions. The role supports product introductions, qualification, validation, first article activities, and cross-functional resolution of quality issues. Based in Royston, the position requires regular travel to the Havant site and suppliers, approximately 25% of the time.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join our Quality team as a Supplier Quality Engineer and play a key role in ensuring consistent supplier quality performance.
As the quality authority for assigned suppliers, you will help to establish reliable supply processes, enabling our teams to focus on what matters most: better health for more people.
Based in Royston, Hertfordshire, you will travel regularly to our Havant site and suppliers, accounting for approximately 25% of your time. You will become part of a team of nine dedicated professionals who look forward to shaping the future together with you.

Grow With Us – Your Responsibilities

  • Perform on site supplier assessments and due diligence activities by planning, conducting and documenting assessments against quality requirements to identify compliance gaps and reduce supplier related quality risks
  • Execute release and validation activities by reviewing changes, documentation and first article results to enable compliant implementation of supplier changes
  • Resolve supplier deviations and complaints by leading investigations and verifying corrective actions to prevent recurrence of quality issues
  • Monitor supplier quality performance by evaluating quality indicators and escalating recurring trends to improve supplier reliability and consistency
  • Support product introductions by contributing to qualification, validation, and first article activities to ensure supplier readiness for successful product launches
  • Coordinate supplier quality topics with suppliers and cross functional stakeholders to accelerate resolution of quality related issues

What Will Convince Us

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Life Sciences, Chemistry or a related field
  • Proven experience in Supplier Quality, Quality Assurance or Manufacturing Quality
  • Experience applying quality methods including audits, deviation management, root cause analysis and corrective actions
  • Knowledge of applicable quality standards and regulatory requirements
  • Experience collaborating with suppliers and cross functional stakeholders across Procurement, Engineering & Manufacturing
  • Strong analytical, communication & stakeholder management skills
  • Hold a driving licence and be willing to travel

In order to commence working with us, the successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK. 


What We Offer

As a growing global life science company, stock listed on the MDAX and TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of Benefits:

  • Personal and Professional Development: Mentoring, leadership programs, Talent Talks, internal seminar offerings, coaching for managers
  • Making An Impact Right From The Start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform even before joining, Welcome Workshops, "buddy" as point of contact
  • Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, team spirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics, such as coaching, agile working and businesswomen network

Benefits

Attractive Working Conditions

  • 37.5 hour working week
  • 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
  • Annual option to buy, sell or carry over annual leave
  • Free parking on site
  • Free hot and cold drinks

Health & Wellbeing

  • Competitive benefits package, including:
    • Private Medical Insurance
    • Private Dental Insurance
    • Group Life Assurance
    • Travel Insurance (employee paid)
    • Salary Sacrifice Health Assessment Service
    • Salary Sacrifice Cycle to Work Scheme

Planning Ahead For Your Future

  • Group Personal Pension Plan
  • Group Income Protection
  • Salary Sacrifice Will Writing Service

About Sartorius 

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide. 

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.

Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application. 
www.sartorius.com/careers

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Life Sciences, Chemistry, or a related field
  • Proven experience in Supplier Quality, Quality Assurance, or Manufacturing Quality
  • Experience applying audits, deviation management, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
  • Knowledge of applicable quality standards and regulatory requirements
  • Experience collaborating with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders across Procurement, Engineering, and Manufacturing
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Valid driving licence and willingness to travel
  • Right to work in the UK

Sartorius Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sartorius and has not been reviewed or approved by Sartorius.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple medical plan options with dental, vision, HSA/FSA, EAP, and wellness resources across many locations. Quality of core medical, dental, and vision is characterized as solid.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with a company match highlighted in U.S. materials and employer‑verified listings. The match is characterized as generous at some sites.
  • Flexible Benefits — Flexible hours and hybrid/home‑office options are available where roles and regions allow, with role‑dependent perks in some locations. Broader extras such as commuter benefits, discounts, and tuition assistance add optionality where eligible.

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The Company
HQ: Göttingen
9,059 Employees
Year Founded: 1870

What We Do

Sartorius is a leading international partner of life sciences research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. We help our customers #SimplifyProgress from drug discovery to manufacturing so that more people can have access to better medicine. With this, we are #PartOfTheSolution in the fight against diseases worldwide. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the our Lab Products & Services division focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions division, with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies safely, rapidly, and economically. Based in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius also has a strong global reach with around 60 production and sales sites worldwide. We regularly expand our portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In 2023, Sartorius generated sales revenue of around 3.4 billion euros. Currently, around 14,600 employees from around 110 nations are working for customers around the globe. Join our team, partner or collaborate with us.

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