Quality Assurance Engineer, Intermediate

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.

Our broad line of vascular devices–which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.

*Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical

practitioner designated by the Company

Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing to ensure delivery of the highest quality product to the customer.
Support product development teams to help ensure development of high-quality new products.

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  Identify manufacturing process defects (scrap, non-conforming material, complaints); perform root cause analysis and suggest corrective/preventative actions.

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  Support development of product quality plans, specifications, risk analyses, and FMEA.

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  Use process monitoring systems to identify critical steps and reduce process variation.

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  Assist product/process improvement efforts using quality metrics and analysis.

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  Apply and develop proficiency in quality tools and training materials.

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  Participate in validation activities (protocol/report writing, execution).

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  Support corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

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  Participate in Field Discrepancy Notification (FDN) investigations.

Education & Experience

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• Working knowledge of quality systems, processes, and procedures

• Understanding of business unit functions

• Operates in a regulated quality environment

• Solves problems of moderate scope

• Applies judgment within defined procedures

• Understands impact of technical decisions

• Builds internal and external networks

• May lead small project teams

• Mentors junior staff

• Influences peers and first-line management

• Plans and prioritises own work to meet schedules

• Makes decisions within defined limits

• Errors may impact timelines and resource allocation

Supervision

• General supervision; trains new engineers

• May guide junior staff

• May contribute to performance evaluation and development planning