Material Change Coordinator
About The Position
This position works out of our St. Paul, MN location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. The Opportunity Drives improvement projects for components sourced from outside suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials and component qualification at the supplier. Provides technical support to drive supplier change requests, supplier queries, and PPV opportunities. Project focused, specifically on cost and risk reductions. Reports through supply chain to ensure continuity of supply and timely PPV implementation. Material Change Coordinator is integral to new supplier/component development.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) in Engineering preferred
- 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area
- Experience with manufacturing processes, including machining, extrusion, molding, welding.
- Experience with GDT (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), quality measurement technique and use of SolidWorks.
Nice To Haves
- Masters Degree (± 18 years) - preferred
- Experience with process validation, 6-sigma root cause analysis and statistical software such as Minitab or JMP preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to product cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide engineering oversight, support and consultancy to suppliers on process validations, design for manufacture (DFM), material selection, and process development.
- Identify and prioritize parts (components and assemblies) requiring supplier development activities.
- Work with design engineers and suppliers to optimize design drawings and supplier manufacturing processes so that high quality parts are consistently delivered.
- Review, understand and incorporate technical design risk assessments into the part evaluation process.
- Lead the technical aspects of Problem Solving, Failure Analysis, and Corrective and Preventative Actions with suppliers.
- Promote a culture of structured problem solving with suppliers.
- Monitor and control the progress of supplier engineering projects to ensure sound application of engineering principles are used and design intent is being followed.
- Assist Supplier Quality Engineering and suppliers to develop Component Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (CFMEA).
- Responsible for filing the completed documents.
- Assist suppliers in developing final test requirements to ensure products meet specifications.
- Work with the Incoming Quality Control department to evaluate parts and resolve issues.
- Support throughout component lifecycle including setup as components are launched and deactivation as components sunset.
- Supports initiatives to query suppliers to identify potential risks within components that result from evolving regulations.
- Escalate potential supplier manufacturing and compliance issues.
- Travel to supplier sites as necessary.
- Provide technical support in failure analysis, re-design and drawing updates for discrepant production components, assemblies and field returns.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
