Specialist Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Specialist

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.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and 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.

We currently have an opening for a Quality Assurance Specialist for the Vascular division. This role is located at our St. Paul, MN location. This is a fully onsite role.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Main Responsibilities:

• Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers.
• Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers.
• Develops acceptance criteria for materials.
• Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.
• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities.
• Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
• Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
• Assists in generating component specifications.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• Communicates issues to suppliers.
• Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
• May supervise inspectors.
• 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 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.

Education and Experience You'll Bring:

Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Qualifications:

• 2 years related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• 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.