Staff 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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 out of our Plymouth, MN location in the Electrophysiology division. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

The Staff Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible for driving 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. 

What You’ll Work On

• Lead project teams of moderate scope for activities related to Supplier Change Notifications
• 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. 
• Assists in generating component specifications. 
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products. 
• Analyzes incoming material defects. 
• Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary. 
• Communicates issues to suppliers. 
• Reviews specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective. 
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials. 
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary 
• May supervise Supplier Quality Engineers or technicians. 
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. 
• 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. 
   

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in Engineering or Technical Field or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years’ Engineering experience and demonstrated use of Quality tools/methodologies
• Detailed knowledge of FDA, GMP, ISO 13485, ISO 9001
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills
• Advanced computer skills, including statistical/data analysis and report writing skills
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the orga