Specialist Quality Assurance

Abbott • St. Paul, MN

14d • $61,300 - $122,700 • Onsite

About The Position

We currently have an opening for a Supplier Quality Engineer for the Vascular division. This role is located at our New Brighton, MN location. This is a fully onsite role. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 0-2 years related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• General 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.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

Responsibilities

• Individual will support Third Party Manufacturing, perform GMP inspections, 5S, and execute STOP process.
• Support commercial launch at Third Party Manufacturer.
• Work with Design and Development, Manufacturing, Purchasing and IQA when qualifying and monitoring supplier performance.
• A thorough understanding of the ISO/QSRs and the ability to apply that knowledge with an understanding of business operations to achieve regulatory compliance is needed.
• Analyzes and solves problems from basic engineering principles, theories, and concepts through to a wide range of complex problems.
• Incorporates business policies and procedures into task completion.
• Understands the business needs of the company and has knowledge of the customer needs of our business.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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