Product Performance Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents

Our location in Temecula, CA, currently has an opportunity for a Product Performance Engineer.

THIS POSITION IS AN ONSITE DAILY REQUIRED ROLE.

NO RELOCATION ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Identify, analyze, investigate, monitor and document patterns and trends in post marketing surveillance 

data as part of the CAPA system. Analyze and investigate product complaints from the field as part 

of post market surveillance requirements.  Communicate and educate management, R&D, marketing, 

sales organization and other departments, as well as external customers about product performance. 

Ensure that information and insight gained from the investigations and corrective actions is fed back to 

the R&D and marketing organizations as part of the risk management and design input systems.  

Develop Post Market Surveillance Plans and provide engineering support for complaint investigation 

readiness of new products.

Core Job Responsibilities

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

1. Analyzes customer complaints, events and other post marketing surveillance data by examining the 

data for patterns and trends and investigating when necessary.;

2. Investigates customer complaints related to product quality or patient safety.;

3. Investigates identified trends by starting a formal trend investigation and trend report and working 

on cross-functional teams.;

4. Documents trend action by updating the trend report at appropriate levels and by performing a 

Health Risk Analysis.;

5. Communicates product performance by formal presentations to management committees and 

design teams, supporting published product performance reports and supporting customer requests for 

performance information either directly or through the sales organization.;

6. Develop test plans, procedures, justifications papers and provide