Senior Incoming Inspection Supervisor

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. # **A Day in the Life** At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working onsite 5 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. Senior Incoming Inspection Supervisor is a key Quality Assurance leader responsible for leading the Boulder Incoming Inspection team and driving risk-based prioritization across the QA organization. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for incoming inspection activities, ensuring effective risk burndown, regulatory compliance, and alignment with business and quality objectives. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. • Leads team in predetermined methods, operations, setups and prescribed specifications to inspect visually in-process and completed products such as electronic units and subsystems, precision electromechanical assemblies or mechanical units, subassemblies, structural flaws, internal defects, and missing welds. • Uses various measuring devices and testing equipment. • Accepts, rejects, or reworks defective or malfunctioning units or systems. • Works from blueprints, diagrams, dial indicators, preset micrometers, scales, fixtures, customer specifications, drawing or inspection instructions and checklists. • May monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures. • Performs line clearances after each lot to ensure all materials from the previous lot have been removed. • Assures smooth operating of the inspection unit, maintaining daily records and reports. • Prioritizes schedules based on product introduction and manufacturing schedules, maintaining a minimum turnaround time. • Makes recommendations for capital expenditures and manpower for inspection area. • Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. • Recommends new or enhanced methods, procedures and standards. • Drives risk burndown activities by identifying quality risks, recurring defects, inspection escapes, and process gaps, and implementing actions to reduce risk to product quality, compliance, and supply continuity. • Leads and supports Quality Management System improvements related to inspection procedures, documentation, training effectiveness, compliance, and standard work. • Leads efficiency projects focused on improving inspection throughput, reducing turnaround time, eliminating non-value-added activities, and optimizing use of people, equipment, and resources. • Maintains audit readiness for the inspection area by ensuring procedures, records, training, and practices are compliant and inspection-ready for internal, external, customer, and regulatory audits. • Supports audit activities and inspection responses, including preparation, participation, gap identification, and timely closure of actions. • Oversees MRB activities and NCMR product management to ensure nonconforming product is properly identified, segregated, reviewed, dispositioned, and closed in compliance with applicable procedures and quality requirements. • Partners cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations to drive timely disposition of nonconforming material and reduce repeat issues. • Monitors trends in defects, MRB, NCMR, rework, and inspection performance to…