Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

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 Plymouth, MN location in the Electrophysiology business. 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. 

As the Senior Manager Quality Engineering, you’ll provide leadership and guidance for the quality engineering department supporting commercial products and new product development. This role is responsible for developing goals, objectives, procedures, policies, and systems that are in line with company goals and objectives, mission and vision and FDA/ISO regulations; assures the overall quality of products meet internal and external customer requirements. 

What You’ll Work On 

• Recruits, coaches, and develops organizational talent. 

• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives. 

• Creates an entrepreneurial environment. 

• Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments. 

• May supervise non-exempt employees. 

• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action. 

• Demonstrates effective change leadership. 

• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives. 

• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills. 

• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g., compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.). 

• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules to achieve department objectives. 

• Develops, monitors