Staff QA Specialist

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:

QUALIFICATIONS

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.

THIS IS AN ONSITE DAILY REQUIRED POSITION. 

Our location in Temecula, CA currently has an opportunity for a Staff QA Specialist

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division.  Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

• Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.
• Individual contributor with comprehensive knowledge in the specific area.
• Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects.
• Adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions.
• Responsible for designing and maintaining programs for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.

What You'll Work On

• Under general direction, has duties of instructing, directing, and checking the work of other quality assurance professionals.
• Responsible for application of quality principles and complex analysis of quality records, reports to form recommndations for improvements.
• Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.
• Identify and address recurring problems either with the quality of the product or the reliability of testing procedures.
• Document quality issues and performance measures for management review.
• May liaise with external vendors.

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Education

Bachelors Degree AND 9+ years experience in a related field OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience.  Masters Degree Preferred

Experience

• Minimum 9 years Related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

WHAT WE OFFER :

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• A fast-paced work environment where your safety is our priority
• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive