Manager, Quality Assurance

Abbott • Temecula, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is hiring a Manager, Quality Assurance for its Temecula, California location. This is an onsite role supporting manufacturing. The manager leads a team of Quality engineers, directs projects to ensure high-quality product manufacturing and regulatory compliance, and sustains the Quality System. The position works in a quality system environment, where inadequate performance may result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

The manager oversees staffing, employee development and performance, daily operations, customer interactions, policy execution, compliance monitoring, and department budgeting. The role translates department goals into individual objectives, develops and implements processes to improve performance, supports supplier development, improves Quality Systems and tools, and makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines. The position requires travel 10% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, and at least 9 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Ability to lead, motivate, select, and train staff and communicate guidance toward group objectives.
• Ability to make day-to-day decisions within established guidelines to achieve program objectives.
• Ability to monitor departmental goals, costs, and human and material resources.
• Ability to develop work processes, facilitate continuous improvement, and investigate and solve problems affecting work processes and personnel.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Quality engineers supporting manufacturing and direct projects that ensure high-quality products and regulatory compliance.
• Develop staffing plans, identify resource needs, prepare justifications for additional personnel, obtain approvals, and coordinate selection with Human Resources.
• Develop direct reports through training, progressively challenging assignments, disciplinary action when appropriate, and formal performance reviews.
• Monitor daily work and guide experienced exempt employees or skilled nonexempt staff toward unit and project goals.
• Meet with internal and external customers, respond to requests, and explain procedures.
• Interpret and execute policies affecting work processes and personnel, and contribute to developing operational policies and procedures.
• Monitor compliance with company policies and applicable requirements, including FDA, BSI, and EEO regulations.
• Contribute to developing and monitoring area budgets through regular cost and spending analysis; carry out operations within an established budget.
• Translate department goals into individual objectives and key result areas.
• Identify, develop, and implement processes to improve department performance.
• Monitor departmental activities and records to ensure compliance and exercise independent critical decision-making.
• Support supplier development by assigning work to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements using Quality System tools.
• Improve Quality Systems and tools by directing personnel to gather data, identify weaknesses, and research and select new tools.
• Maintain Quality System capability and regulatory compliance by addressing quality system issues and delegating project work.
• Select, motivate, and train capable staff; communicate goals and provide leadership and guidance to assigned units.
• Schedule human and material resources in conjunction with near-term plans.
• Monitor progress toward departmental goals, project costs, resource use, and the external environment in the relevant technical or professional area.
• Develop or identify work processes and improve the use of human and material resources; facilitate continuous improvement and investigate and solve problems affecting work processes and personnel.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, offering an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor's degree.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

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