Senior External Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Build supplier excellence that powers life-saving results

Imagine starting your day in Chaska, MN—walking the production floor, reviewing a supplier scorecard trend, and preparing to join a cross-functional huddle. By afternoon, you’re at a supplier site, facilitating a root-cause workshop on a component nonconformance. The outcome: a targeted corrective action and an updated material control plan that stabilizes yield and reduces variation. That’s impact.

Role at a glance

• Location: On-site in Chaska, MN.
• Team: Instrument Supplier Quality; reports to the Sr. Quality Manager, Instrument Quality.
• Company: Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher operating company, advancing clinical diagnostics worldwide for 90+ years.

What you’ll do

• Plan and execute supplier selection and qualification, manage change notifications, conduct audits, drive corrective actions, and maintain supplier scorecards.
• Develop supplier material control plans integrated with product qualification to ensure robust incoming quality.
• Lead investigations and corrective actions for supplier-driven manufacturing issues, serving as the primary supplier quality representative.
• Visit suppliers to resolve product performance concerns at the source.
• Recommend appropriate field actions to the product regulatory committee when necessary.
• Run Kaizen events to streamline transactional processes, implement lean tools, reduce variation, and eliminate waste—boosting efficiency and associate engagement.

Qualifications

• Scientific degree in a relevant field (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or similar).
• 5+ years of quality experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 3+ years with a master’s degree; or a doctoral degree.

Preferred experience

• Certified Quality Engineer (CQE).
• Regulatory/standards experience with 21 CFR 820 and ISO 14971.

Why it matters

Our diagnostic systems run over a million tests every hour and serve 1.2 billion patients annually. With the Danaher Business System guiding continuous improvement, your work transforms supplier quality into better outcomes for clinicians and patients everywhere.