Supplier 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Supplier Quality Engineer

Working at Abbott

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

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position of Supplier Quality Engineer is within our Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit located at all sites under Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough QMS. This role will perform daily activities required to ensure that all purchased or otherwise received materials, products and services that can impact the quality of product or service provided conform to predefined requirements and quality attributes. 

What You’ll Work On

• Maintain the Supplier Quality Function, working closely with and supporting Purchasing and the New Product Development and Engineering team(s).
• Respond in a timely and professional manner to internal and external suppler requests that pertain to quality.
• Manage supplier changes through the change management system.
• Review Supplier Validation Protocols to ensure they meet regulatory and customer requirements.
• Work closely with the engineering team to schedule and drive and review purchased product first article inspections, capability studies, gage R&Rs, etc.
• Investigate and drive to completion root cause analysis of product quality issues and defects for new and sustaining purchased products and implement solutions to resolve issues; assist other personnel, as required, with the Corrective Action process specific to purchased components and/or services.
• Manage the Supplier corrective action process, drive improvement to the ASL.
• Utilize supplier Scorecards/metrics and analytical tools to quantify performance levels of individual suppliers and work with those suppliers to develop improvement plans to achieve quality performance goals.
• Establish and execute priorities to achieve expectations.
• Identify and implement continual improvement opportunities to streamline quality systems and processes.
• Perform external audits, as required, based on the published audit schedule and/or as needed if suppliers are struggling to achieve established quality metrics.
• Other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Manufacturing, Biology or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2+ years’ experience in medical device industry, preferably in Quality or Supplier Engineering. 
• Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

PREFERRED:

• Familiarity with federal and other regulations, e.g. QSR’s, ISO 13485, CMDR, IVDD/IVDR. Working knowledge of the General Provisions of 21 CFR Part 11 for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures preferred.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of software applications is r