Sr. Supplier Development 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 out of our St. Paul, MN location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

As the Senior Supplier Development Quality Engineer, you'll have the chance to develop components and associated quality requirements for new product development initiatives. This position is responsible for managing supplier relationships, qualifying components and developing incoming controls that will drive the quality of future components.  This will include technical support in the selection of suppliers and developing acceptance criteria for materials.

What you’ll work on:

• 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 internally and with suppliers.
• Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to qualify supplier processes.
• Develops and validates inspection methods for new components.
• 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.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree within an Engineering field or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• Prior medical device engineering experience, demonstrated use of Quality tools/methodologies, and ASQ CQE or other certifications preferred.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, industry regulations (21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, EUMDR, and MDSAP), an