Supplier Quality Engineer II

Abbott Supplier Quality Engineer IIAbbott 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.The OpportunityThis position works out of our Woodridge site in St. Paul, MN location in the Structural Heart Division.Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We ExistOur business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.As a Supplier Quality Engineer II you will lead efforts to enhance and correct the quality of components from external suppliers. Establishes acceptance criteria for materials. Tracks supplier performance to enforce corrective actions, address manufacturing yield issues, and resolve field failures. Coordinates supplier-initiated changes with cross-functional teams.What You'll Work On- Work closely with external suppliers to gain insights into their manufacturing processes and fulfill all required qualifications.- Work together with manufacturing engineers to resolve production-related challenges.- Work with cross-functional teams to assess and implement supplier changes.- Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures.- Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.- Work with internal/external suppliers investigating material issues including implementing corrective actions- Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.- Analyzes incoming material defects.- Communicates issues to suppliers.- Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.- Investigate and develop corrective action plans for internal and external issues as needed.- Implement and drive corrective actions accordingly.- Support Audits (internal/external)- Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.- Oversee project team(s) with a moderate scope- 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.QUALIFICATIONSEducationBachelors Degree (± 16 years) - Related field.Masters Degree (± 18 years) - Preferred.Experience/BackgroundMinimum 2 years of related experience required.2-5 years of related work experience in technical or other QA related position2-5 years preferred experience in medical device or similar regulated industry.- 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.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.