Quality Technician III - 2nd shift
Boston Scientific · Arden Hills, MN
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level quality role at Boston Scientific (medical devices) in Arden Hills, MN.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- SPC, MES
- Day to day
- relocation help
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $51k–$75k.
Median of the low and high ends of 33 live postings that list pay, out of 547 quality technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Minnesota plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 36 other live quality postings in Minnesota.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (3+ vs 2+)
Typical $76k–$97k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 2+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 51%
- Root cause 35%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 30%
- ✓ SPC 22%
- GD&T 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Boston Scientific in Arden Hills
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- Capital Equipment Technician I - 2nd shift Defined Term · Manufacturing · Technician
Full description from Boston ScientificAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
About the role
Provide Quality Technician support to Arden Hills commercial and development manufacturing lines ensuring delivery of the highest quality product to the customer while supporting continuous improvement projects and quality initiatives. This is a dynamic support role requiring cross-functional collaboration with production, manufacturing, and quality team members. This role includes responsibility for providing day-to-day quality support for manufacturing, including the processing of non-conforming product (identification, documentation, segregation, evaluation and disposition), certifying, owning NCEPs, help in investigations, collaborating and providing feedback to builders to respond to quality signals.
Required Qualifications
- ✓Minimum of 3 years of experience with High School Diploma and/or equivalent experience, training, or apprenticeships
- ✓Must work well in a team environment
- ✓Proficient with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- ✓Good oral and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Associate’s degree in technical discipline (or equivalent)
- ✓Self-starter with the ability to identify improvement opportunities
- ✓Able to work independently under limited supervision as well as in a team environment
- ✓Highly Proficiency with Microsoft desktop environment: Windows and Office 365
- ✓Process Owner and NCEP owner certification
- ✓Experience with product/component inspection and testing and Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- ✓Experience working on complex assemblies
Minimum Salary: $ 55432
Maximum Salary: $ 94224
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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn .
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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.
This is a day shift working Monday through Friday.
Work Mode
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model, requiring employees to be in our local office five days per week.
Relocation
Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.
Visa
Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment VISA for this position at this time.
Your
will include
- •Processing non-conforming product including troubleshooting complex assemblies
- •Provides technical assistance to engineering for yield fallout investigations, manufacturing instruction compliance, product containment bounding, and corrective and preventive actions
- •Update databases and spreadsheets used to track, monitor, and report department activities in tier meetings and core team meetings
- •Use the inventory and traceability management systems to transact and research material
- •Assists engineers in providing manufacturing support by training operators on processes and engineering changes. Performs operator certification on-the-job training and testing
- •Provides support to engineers by collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing, and documenting data, as well as developing procedural documentation
- •Assists during audit activities
- •Assists Engineers in developing or changing manufacturing instructions.
- •Assists Engineers in monitoring traceability and inspection requirements, statistical process control criteria, and manufacturing practices and procedures
- •Assist engineers in failure analysis
- •Lead and participate in continuous improvement projects
- •Proactively audit the line to identify and escalate Quality opportunities
- •Own and/or participate in NCEPs
- •Assist engineers with CAPAs as applicable
- •Provide quality leadership and mentorship to Quality Tech I and Quality Tech II positions