Supplier Quality Manager

Company Overview

Echo Neurotechnologies is an exciting new startup in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, driving innovation through advanced hardware engineering and AI solutions. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies that restore autonomy to people living with disabilities and improve their quality of life.

Team Culture

Join a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.

Position Overview:

As the Supplier Quality Manager, you will partner with the cross-functional team to act as a champion of Supplier Quality activities throughout the product development lifecycle. You hold your work and teams to the highest quality standards and ensure all applicable compliance standards and regulations are met. This is a hands-on role requiring deep experience in supplier management, risk management, and manufacturing line bring ups and design transfer. As a Supplier Quality Manager, you will be building scalable quality systems while directly executing critical quality engineering activities across multiple programs.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead selection, evaluation and monitoring of suppliers and maintain the Approved Supplier List (ASL)

• Collaborate with suppliers to establish quality agreements and technical expectations

• Identify supplier risks and work with cross-functional teams to prevent and/or resolve issues which could interrupt business continuity

• Create and/or maintain procedures to ensure that the organization complies with applicable regulatory standards

• Guide and support suppliers and the technical team through key activities such as process FMEAs, manufacturing flow and control plans, master validation plans, process validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), equipment qualifications

• Work with the Engineering and Operations teams to identify manufacturing test specifications, critical to quality specifications, and inspection criteria

• Oversee and manage the execution of Supplier Audits, Supplier Qualifications, Supplier Corrective Actions (SCARs), Supplier Change Assessments, Non-conformance Reports (NCRs)

• Participate in decision-making at Material Review Board (MRB) meetings

• Define KPIs and metrics for Supplier Quality and create/define systems to support the efficient collection and analysis of data for such KPIs and metrics

• Support and participate in internal and external audits, coordinating and providing documentation and evidence of compliance