Senior 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

We have an opportunity for the role of Senior Quality Engineer within our Transfusion Medicine division based out of Irving, TX. 

Abbott Transfusion Medicine is a global leader in in vitro diagnostics and offers a broad range of innovative instrument systems and tests for hospitals, reference labs, blood banks, and clinics. Our products offer automation, convenience, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. Abbott has helped transform the practice of medical diagnosis from an art to a science, helping to create the modern diagnostics industry through the company’s commitment to improving patient care and lowering overall costs.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will provide essential Process and Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, ensuring the delivery of the highest quality products to our customers. Additionally, you will support product development teams to ensure the creation of top-quality new products.

What You’ll Work On

• Defect Reduction and Control: Lead efforts and teams to identify primary root causes of manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) and implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Product Stops and Release Criteria: Implement product stops and document release criteria as needed.
• Quality Plans and Documentation: Develop and implement product quality plans, documents, and systems, including product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, and FMEAs, in collaboration with product development team members.
• Risk Analyses and FMEAs: Conduct risk analyses and FMEAs as required.
• Process Monitoring Systems: Develop and implement Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps that could lead to manufacturing defects and devising methods to reduce process variation and eliminate defects.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Collect and analyze manufacturing process defect data (e.g., scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) to support product/process improvement efforts and enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Quality Tools and Training: Create quality tools and training materials by applying expertise and communicating with respective teams.
• Staff Development: Participate in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel. May lead a project team.
• Project Goals and Objectives: Participate in determining goals and objectives for projects and influence middle management on technical or business solutions.
• Vendor Interaction: Interact with vendors as necessary.
• Planning and Organization: Plan and organize non-routine tasks with approval, initiate or maintain work schedules, and establish priorities for work assignments.
• Decision Making and Impact: Exercise judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution. Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations could result in serious program de