Line Quality Engineer Supervisor

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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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

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 Line Quality Engineer Supervisor is within our Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit located at all sites within the Scarborough QMS. Responsible for leading a team of Quality professionals ensuring that all communications, interpersonal interactions and business behaviors are consistent with ADC values and the Abbott Code of Conduct. To identify and support staff training and development needs.

Accountable for providing Quality Assurance expertise and guidance to ensure that new product introductions and design changes to products and processes meet customer, business and regulatory requirements. Responsible for the development and maintenance of ADC Quality System procedures to provide an effective methodology for Design Control, Process Validation and Operations QA.

Required to build and maintain successful cross functional relationships with departments such as R&D, Technical, Engineering, Operations and Regulatory Affairs in order to achieve all project goals. Required to proactively address Health and Safety concerns within the working environment in order to reduce hazards and risk. To support the creation and development of an environment in which Health and Safety is an individual and collective responsibility and that EHS responsibilities are met.

What You'll Do:

• Prioritize and co-ordinate resources within the QAC group in order to meet overall group demands and achieve project success:
• Plan individual workload on a weekly basis.
• Provide regular updates to peers and colleagues on project resource requirements.
• Through forward planning ensure conflicts are resolved.
• Ensure other quality functions are brought into project teams at appropriate points.
• Serve as the primary representative for quality assurance functions on each project team assigned:
• Work with project leads to develop effective and time saving strategies that meet business goals.
• Responsible for maintaining an appropriate balance of quality, compliance and business risk.
• Responsible for ensuring teams use appropriate risk management tools to prioritize certain activities and justify the level of effort required.
• Take decisive action to resolve quality issues:
• Provide compliant yet practical solutions that minimize the impact of Quality issues on project timelines.
• Update management on Quality and Technical issues.
• Take action to resolve disagreement prior to escalating for Senior management involvement.
• Monitor and maintain the qu