Abbott

Quality Engineer

Abbott$61K — $122K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • 2+ years of related work experience or equivalent education
  • Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures
  • Limited understanding of business unit/function
  • Ability to learn and solve routine problems

Responsibilities

  • Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing for product quality assurance
  • Assist product development teams to achieve high-quality new product development
  • Ensure compliance with corporate and divisional policies
  • Identify manufacturing process defects and assist in root cause analysis
  • Gain understanding of product quality plans and learn to document risk analyses
  • Familiarize with Process Monitoring Systems and methods to reduce process variation
  • Learn quality tools and training materials to enhance product development

Benefits

  • Access to health and wellness benefits for employees and their families
  • Opportunities for career advancement within the company
  • Structured environment with supervision and guidance for new employees
  • Potential networking opportunities with internal resources
  • Supportive work culture that aims at personal and professional growth
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

For years, Abbott's medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it's glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

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.

What you'll do:
  • Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.
  • Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.
  • Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
  • 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.
  • Work is closely supervised. Follows specific, detailed instructions. Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks. Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
  • Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
  • May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval. Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

Required Experience
  • Bachelors degree in a related field.
  • 2+ years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work 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.


Preferred Experience
  • Experience with Manufacturing, Plastics or Extrusion.


Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

The base pay for this position is
$61,300.00 - $122,700.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality

DIVISION:
AVD Vascular

LOCATION:
United States > Temecula : Building E - TE

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

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Size
113,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1944
5 Year Trend
+15.6%
Revenue
$34.6 billion
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