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:

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 for our Westford, MA location for our Vascular division. This role is fully onsite.

The Quality Engineer provides Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provides Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products. This role will include primarily working on and leading project teams to drive process/Quality improvements.

What You'll Work On

• Identifies and controls Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for querying & bounding data to support implementation of complex & documenting release criteria.
• Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product development team members.
• May be responsible for creating risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Leads process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Assists in creation of Quality Tools & Training Materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials, and by helping to identify more effective tools & materials.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Leads a project team of moderate scope to drive Quality improvements or to address Quality concerns.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.
• Acts as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 2 years related work experience with a good understanding of Quality Engineering
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures. General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Has lead or been part of moderate to large project teams. Is familiar with project management principles and can demonstrate knowledge.
• Has worked in a regulated medical industry (pharmaceutical, medical device, etc.) and has an understanding of ISO 13485 requirements.
• Has worked on resolving nonconformances through CAPA or other means, understands problem solving tools and their applications.
• Has a technical background and can demonstrate aptitude of technical skills as they apply to process monitoring, manufacturing improvements, and basic product design.
• Has had previous Quality Engineering experience and is comfortable with key Quality documentation and their use (ex. FMEAs, RAM, CAPA, Quality specifications, etc.)

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The base pay for this position is
$61,300.00 - $122,700.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality


DIVISION:
AVD Vascular


LOCATION:
United States > Massachusetts > Westford : 4 Robbins Road


ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard


TRAVEL:
Yes, 10 % of the Time


MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No


SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)


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