Abbott Vascular needs a Quality Engineer to support manufacturing and product development to ensure the delivery of highest quality products to the customer.
Requirements
- 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.
- Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
- Medical device experience
Responsibilities
- Identify and control Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
- May be responsible for querying & bounding data to support implementation of complex & documenting release criteria.
- Develop product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product. development team members.
- May be responsible for creating risk analyses and FMEAs.
- Develop Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
- Lead process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Assist in creation of Quality Tools & Training Materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials, and by helping to identify more effective tools & materials.
Other
- ONSITE DAILY POSITION.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
- Bachelor's degree plus 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area, or Master's degree with 0-2 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 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.
- Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
