Quality Technician, Entry

<p>     </p><h2><b>JOB DESCRIPTION:</b></h2><p><b>About Abbott</b></p><p>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 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.</p><p>Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6000 people across tensites. We have seven manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.</p><p></p><p><b>Abbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel</b></p><p>Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.</p><p>Our broad line of vascular devices–which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.</p><p></p><p><b><u><span>PURPOSE OF THE JOB</span></u></b></p><p><span>Provides technical </span><span>assistance to e</span><span>n</span><span>gineering to support manufacturing efforts </span><span>by </span><span>imp</span><span>l</span><span>ementing corrective and </span><span>preventative actions. </span><span>Assists eng</span><span>ine</span><span>ers in </span><span>developing </span><span>methods </span><span>and procedures to control </span><span>or improve </span><span>manufacturing processes.</span></p><p></p><p><b><u>MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES</u></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Assists engineering </span><span>in providing manufacturing </span><span>support </span><span>by training operators </span><span>on </span><span>processes </span><span>and <span>engineer</span></span><span>in</span><span>g </span><span>changes, </span><span>and performing </span><span>operator certification on-the-job training and testing</span><span>.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Develops </span><span>knowledge of </span><span>manufa</span><span>c</span><span>turing </span><span>practices </span><span>and procedures.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Learns<span> </span>process<span> </span></span><span>im</span><span>provement</span><span> </span><span>techniq<span>u</span></span><span>es</span><span> </span><span>by<span> </span>assisting<span> </span></span><span>e</span><span>ngineering in researching </span><span>and va</span><span>lidatin</span><span>g changes </span><span>in </span><span>processes/equ</span><span>ipm</span><span>e</span><span>nt and test </span><span>methods to </span><span>imp</span><span>rove yie</span><span>ld </span><span>and/or </span><span>reduc</span><span>e </span><span>cycle </span><span>time per</span><span> established<span> </span></span><span>procedures</span><span>.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Learns </span><span>traceability </span><span>and </span><span>in</span><span>spect</span><span>ion </span><span>requirements, learns statistica</span><span>l</span><span> process </span><span>control criteria. Learns </span><span>how </span><span>to develop </span><span>manufacturing instruction </span><span>s, </span><span>and create </span><span>training </span><span>sheets and certifications. May also train operators on basic </span><span>proc</span><span>esses </span><span>and engineering changes</span><span>,</span><span> and perform operator certification<span>  </span>on-the-job training and</span><span> testing.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ass</span><span>i</span><span>sts engineers </span><span>in </span><span>col</span><span>l</span><span>ecting, <span>compi</span></span><span>li</span><span>ng, </span><span>measuring,<span> </span>organising</span></p><p><span>and r</span><span>eco</span><span>rdin</span><span>g </span><span>data, and </span><span>b</span><span>y </span><span>writing procedures. May </span><span>keep </span><span>l</span><span>ab </span><span>not</span><span>eboo</span><span>k.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><u><span>EDUCATION &amp; COMPETENCIES</span></u></b></p><ul><li><p><span>National </span><span>Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) </span><span>l</span><span>eve</span><span>l </span><span>6 </span><span>qualification in </span><span>a </span><span>rel</span><span>eva</span><span>nt discipline. Relevant</span><span> work exper