Abbott

Supplier Development Quality Engineer II

Abbott • $85K — $156K *
Pleasanton, CA 94566In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 2-5 years in a related role with a solid understanding of quality control practices
  • Technical knowledge of inspection concepts and procedures
  • Ability to analyze material defects and develop corrective actions
  • Experience working within quality systems and regulatory environments
  • Familiarity with supply chain and manufacturing processes

Responsibilities

  • Drive supplier corrective actions and improve quality of sourced components
  • Develop and maintain incoming inspection procedures and train inspectors
  • Generate testing protocols, monitor results, and approve components
  • Act as the owner of Non-Conforming Material Reports, coordinating supplier investigations
  • Provide insights on new designs from a manufacturability and quality perspective
  • Cultivate internal and external networks to ensure task completion
  • Mentor less experienced staff and guide their professional growth

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits for employees and their families
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Access to advanced resources and tools for quality assurance work
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional projects
  • Potential for growth and leadership opportunities within the company
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity

Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.

What You'll Work On
  • Upholds Division approval requirements to supplier and monitors feedback per project timelines.
  • Analyzes incoming material defects.
  • Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
  • Owner of Non-Conforming Material Reports (NCMRs) issued to supplier for nonconforming supplied material and works with the supplier on the investigation and root cause analysis.
  • Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
  • Communicates issues to suppliers.
  • Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
  • Leads projects with a cross-functional team for supplier requested changes or improvements.
  • Notifies suppliers of customer complaints related to failures resulting from supplied material and requires investigation and corrective action.
  • 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.
  • May lead a project team of moderate scope.
  • Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
  • 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.

What You'll Work On
  • Upholds Division approval requirements to supplier and monitors feedback per project timelines.
  • Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
  • Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
  • Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
  • Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
  • Analyzes incoming material defects.
  • Communicates issues to suppliers.
  • 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.
  • May supervise inspectors.
  • Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
  • May lead a project team of moderate scope.
  • Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
  • 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.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Minimum of 2-5 years of 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.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's Degree


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

The base pay for this position is
$85,600.00 - $156,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality

DIVISION:
HF Heart Failure

LOCATION:
United States > Pleasanton : 5000 Franklin Dr

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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Learn more about Abbott
Size
113,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1944
5 Year Trend
+15.6%
Revenue
$34.6 billion
NASDAQ
ABT
* Ladders Estimates

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