Senior Quality Engineer - Abbott Vascular - Westford Massachusetts

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:

Senior Quality Engineer

Working at Abbott

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. 

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Westford Massachusetts location in the Vascular Division.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming materials, customer complaints) by leading efforts/teams focuses on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for implementing product stops and documenting release criteria.
• Develops and implements product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.
• May be responsible for risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Develops and implements Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps which could culminate in possible sources of manufacturing defects and devising methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Collects and analyzes Lead Manufacturing process defect data Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g. scrap, nonconforming materials, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data and performing the appropriate analysis method(s) to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Creates Quality Tools and Training Materials by applying body of knowledge/expertise and communicating to respective teams.
• Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel. May lead a project team.
• Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects. Influences middle management on technical or business solutions.
• May interact with vendors. (Planning/Organization) Plans and organizes non-routine tasks w/approval.
• Establishes priorities of work assignments. (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises judgement in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.
• Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.

Required Qualifications

Required