Supplier Quality 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 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works Onsite in our St. Paul Minnesota location in the Abbott Vascular Division.  Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

What You’ll Work On

• Ability to effectively communicate, facilitate and organize project activities relating to ensuring supplier quality. Develops and manages project schedules to ensure deadlines are met. 
• Serves as the primary Quality contact for suppliers and provides technical assistance to management for suppliers as requested. 
• Works with supplier development engineering to performs on-site annual and critical component supplier audits to ensure compliance with Quality Systems procedures and CSI requirements.  Generates audit reports and ensures supplier audit findings are tracked to timely and closure. 
• Provides quality systems i