Supplier Quality Engineer II

Abbott

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.

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

This position works out of our Woodridge site in St. Paul, MN location in the Structural Heart Division.

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our 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.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) - Related field.

Masters Degree (± 18 years) - Preferred.

Experience/Background

Minimum 2 years of related experience required.

2-5 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.