Specialist Quality Assurance

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Specialist, Quality Assurance

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 of which you dream.
• 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

We currently have an opening for an Quality Assurance Specialist for the Vascular division. This role is located at our St. Paul, MN location. This is a fully onsite role.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

  

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities.
• Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
• Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
• Assists in generating component specifications.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• Communicates issues to suppliers.
• Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
• May supervise inspectors.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Education

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Qualifications  

• 2 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 s