Assistant III QA

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 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

 

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  

Our location in Temecula, CA, currently has an opportunity for a QA Assistant I.

  

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Provides technical assistance to engineering to support complaint investigation efforts by performing manufacturing record reviews and root cause analysis. Assists engineers in developing methods and procedures to control or improve complaint investigation processes

Core Job Responsibilities

 

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Assists engineering by performing root cause analysis for complaint investigations and documents investigation findings in an electronic database.
• Develops knowledge of products, processes and procedures. 
• Learns process improvement techniques by assisting in the Returned Goods evaluation process; writes basic instructions for testing returned unused devices.
• Performs queries of complaint database analytics reporting system to determine complaint counts and rates.
• Assists Engineers in collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing and recording data, and by 

writing procedures. 

 

(Supervision Received) 

Close supervision. Receives detailed instruction on all assignments.

 

Position Accountability / Scope

(Planning/Organization) Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.; 

 

(Decision Making/Impact) 

Solves problems of  limited scope and complexity requiring basic interpretation of well-defined procedures and practices.  Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information or documents.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING:

Minimum Education  H.S. diploma or equivalent plus 0-3 years of related work experience or equivalent combination. Two-year degree or some college credits preferred.

Minimum Experience / Training Required
 

CAPA background preferred

Medical device experience preferred

(Technical/