Job TitleSr. Quality Engineer
THE OPPORTUNITY
We currently have an opening for an
Senior Quality Engineer for the Vascular division. This role is located at our
Temecula, CA location. This is a fully onsite role.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
- Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by leading efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
- May be responsible for implementing product stops & documenting release criteria.
- Develops and implements product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.
- May be responsible for risk analyses and FMEAs.
- Develops and implements Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps which could culminate in possible sources of manufacturing defects and devising methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
- Collects and analyzes Lead Manufacturing process defect data Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g. scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data and performing the appropriate analysis method(s) to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Creates Quality Tools & Training Materials by applying body of knowledge/expertise and communicating to respective teams.
- Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel. May lead a project team.
- Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects. Influences middle management on technical or business solutions.
- May interact with vendors.(Planning/Organization) Plans and organizes non-routine tasks w/approval. Initiates or maintains work schedule.
- Establishes priorities of work assignments. (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.
- Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING
Minimum Education
- Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Required Qualifications
- 5 years related work experience
- Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures.
- Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships. 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 diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Has a sound knowledge of various technical alternatives and their impact.
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The base pay for this position is
$78,000.00 - $156,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Operations Quality
DIVISION:AVD Vascular
LOCATION:United States > Temecula : 41093 County Center Drive
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % 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)
