Quality Assurance Technician I
About The Position
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. This role is for a QA Tech I for the Vascular division, located in Temecula, CA. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. The role is fully onsite.
Requirements
- Minimum Education: High school diploma or equivalent plus 0 to 3 years of related work experience, or equivalent combination.
- Works in a quality system environment.
- Failure to adequately perform tasks may result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
- Performs routine technical tasks based on detailed written or verbal instructions.
- Performs routine setup, testing, repair, inspection, and or maintenance of specific equipment, materials, systems, and or products.
- Assignments require limited judgment in troubleshooting established processes.
- Applies limited knowledge of basic technical concepts and practices, and a basic understanding of product or systems fundamentals.
- Utilizes basic knowledge of numerical or statistical data and computer software programs to resolve routine problems.
Nice To Haves
- Two year degree or some college coursework preferred.
- CAPA background preferred.
- Medical device experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical assistance to engineering to support complaint investigation efforts by performing manufacturing record reviews and root cause analysis.
- Assists engineers in developing methods and procedures to control or improve complaint investigation processes.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional policies and procedures.
- Assists engineering by performing root cause analysis for complaint investigations and documents findings in an electronic database.
- Develops knowledge of products, processes, and procedures.
- Learns process improvement techniques by assisting in the Returned Goods evaluation process; writes basic instructions for testing returned unused devices.
- Performs queries of complaint database analytics reporting system to determine complaint counts and rates.
- Assists engineers in collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing, and recording data, and writing procedures.
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
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
