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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Quality Engineer

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days.
• 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

This position works out of our Abbott Vascular Plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico at the First Shift (5am-2pm) Monday to Friday. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

As the Quality Engineer, you’ll provide Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer by assisting in the identification and resolution of quality related issues.

What You'll Do

• Identifies manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints), dispositions nonconforming material, leads identification of primary root causes for basic investigations, identifies appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Supports line support team (QC Supervisor, Mfg. Supervisor, Quality Engineer and Operations) to perform line situation triage and determine if non-conformance is present, determine initial bracketing and containment, and initiate exception management process.
• Owns basic to moderate exception / CAPA activities without oversight.
• May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Can perform lot to lot yield and rework evaluation.
• May be responsible for reporting of quality metrics.
• Understands product quality plans, documents, and quality systems.
• Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.
• May be responsible for owning and maintaining product risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Monitors process by using process monitoring tools and Infinity QS to reduce process variation.
• Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Understands Quality Tools & Training Materials and helps others in gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and available training materials.
• Can lead Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g.). scrap, nonconforming product, customer complains) by systematically gathering quality metric data and by using appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design.
• Runs routine problem-solving investigation without oversight and use of six Sigma tools.
• Implements minor and major changes through change management system and provides Quality Engineering impact assessment for changes implemented by other functional areas.
• May write protocols and reports with management oversight to support engineering studies and validations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (± 16 years)
• Minimum Two (2) years- of relevant experience in Quality and/or Compliance, preferably in medical device industry.

• Knowledge of applicable US non-US applicable regulations.
• Knowledge and proficiency in the application and principles of Quality Engineering.
• Ability to effectively communicate cross-functionally to assist with resolving Quality issues.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills in both English and Spanish.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees.

Apply Now

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $53,300.00 – $106,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.