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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Quality Engineer

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 of which you dream.
• 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

We are seeking a Quality Engineer to work at our Temecula, CA location in our Vascular division.

The Quality provides process/quality engineering support to manufacturing, and helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provides Process/Quality Engineering support to Quality Control Receiving Inspection, helping to ensure production of highest quality products.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures.
• Identifies and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in teams focused on identifying the primary root cause and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for querying and bounding data to support implementation of complex projects and documenting release criteria.
• Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality control plans in conjunction with other product quality team members.
• May be responsible for creating and maintaining risk analysis and FMEAs
• Develops process monitoring systems by identifying critical process steps and applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the causes of defects.
• May lead process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Assists in the creation of Quality Tools and Training Materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials and by helping to identify more effective tools and materials.
• May be responsible for developing, execution or modification of test methods or their validations to provide evidence of product conformity to established requirements.
• Works under general supervision. Follows established procedures. Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgement, overall adequacy and accuracy.
• May provide limited work direction and guidance to exempt and/or skilled nonexempt levels of employees; may be asked to evaluate performance of and assist in career development planning for subordinates.

Position Accountability / Scope

• (Influence/Leadership) Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.  May lead a project team of moderate scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff.  Acts as a mentor to lower level indi