Associate Quality Engineer

Abbott Laboratories • Westford, MA

39d • $50,700 - $101,300 • Onsite

About The Position

We currently have an opening for an Assoc. Quality Engineer for the Vascular division. This role is located at our Westford, MA location. This is a fully onsite role.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a related field.
• 0-2 years relevant experience.
• Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures.
• Limited 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.
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems.
• Works on problems of limited scope.
• Minimal independent decision making.

Responsibilities

• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing and sustaining engineering teams, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.
• Participate in problem solving, project execution and data analysis to maintain compliance while achieving the site’s goals.
• Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.
• May be responsible for learning risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps. and through familiarization with methods used 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.
• Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.
• Own and execute project deliverables on time to a schedule, while maintain budget and resource tracking.
• Support post-commercial design changes and GMI improvement projects.
• Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
• May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level