Supplier Quality Engineer Intern 2025

Company Name: Boston Scientific

Location: St. Paul, MN, US - 55101

Job Duration: 2024-09-04 to 2024-10-04

Overview

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove

Diversity – Innovation – Caring – Global Collaboration – Winning Spirit – High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

 

Title: Supplier Quality Engineer Internship   

Location(s): Maple Grove, MN; Arden Hills, MN  

Duration: May – August 2025 (dates flexible)  

Eligibility Requirements: Ability to work in the United States without restriction  

 

Benefits:   

  • Corporate housing & relocation assistance or living stipend available for those who meet eligibility requirements  

  • Half-day Fridays all through the summer  

  • Free on-campus fitness center & group fitness classes  

  • Events throughout the summer include Intern social outings, volunteer day, ice cream & BBQs at the park, opportunities to learn about other BSC sites/departments and network cross-functionally with leadership and peers, and more!  

  • Casual, comfortable dress code and inclusive company culture  

  

Our Purpose:   

As a Supplier Quality Engineering Intern, your role is the critical in ensuring patient safety and quality of care. The Supplier Quality Engineer support on ensuring that raw material/ components provided by suppliers meets BSC, customer, and regulatory requirements. You will build relationships with professionals in a diverse range of fields, inspiring people to embrace a culture of continuous improvement. BSC is a place where you’ll develop your career while taking on meaningful and challenging work.  

   

Your Opportunity:   

As a Supplier Quality Intern at Boston Scientific, you will…  

  • Act as an effective leader or team member in supporting material related issues with suppliers.  

  • Apply systematic problem-solving methodologies in identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and resolving the issues with supplier.   

  • Collaborate and gain experience from a diverse cross-functional team  

  • Gain better understanding by applying academic knowledge to a real-world problem set  

  • Improve patient lives around the world every day  

  

Your Impact  

  • Value Improvement Projects (VIPs) such as driving supplier or internal process improvements allowing cost savings for Boston Scientific  

  • Propose update to inspections plans to ensure products meet critical requirements  

  

Qualifications:   

  • Current Bachelor’s student in your Junior or Senior year or grad student. Must have at least one semester of school left post-internship to qualify.    

  • Pursing degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.  

  • Must have authorization to work in the United States without restriction.  

  • Ability to communicate effectively with diverse, cross-functional teams.   

  • Self-starter with the ability to identify improvement opportunities and passion to learn new technologies and find new solutions.  

  • Knowledge of analytical techniques and statistical analysis  

  • Proficient with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook.  

 

Requisition ID: 590436

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement.  The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.  

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

 

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

 

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

 

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

 

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.