Material Change Coordinator

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

This position works out of our St. Paul, MN location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

• Drives improvement projects for components sourced from outside suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials and component qualification at the supplier. Provides technical support to drive supplier change requests, supplier queries, and PPV opportunities. Project focused, specifically on cost and risk reductions. Reports through supply chain to ensure continuity of supply and timely PPV implementation. Material Change Coordinator is integral to new supplier/component development.

• Provide technical support to product cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide engineering oversight, support and consultancy to suppliers on process validations, design for manufacture (DFM), material selection, and process development.
• Identify and prioritize parts (components and assemblies) requiring supplier development activities.
• Work with design engineers and suppliers to optimize design drawings and supplier manufacturing processes so that high quality parts are consistently delivered.
• Review, understand and incorporate technical design risk assessments into the part evaluation process.
• Lead the technical aspects of Problem Solving, Failure Analysis, and Corrective and Preventative Actions with suppliers. Promote a culture of structured problem solving with suppliers.
• Monitor and control the progress of supplier engineering projects to ensure sound application of engineering principles are used and design intent is being followed. Assist Supplier Quality Engineering and suppliers to develop Component Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (CFMEA). Responsible for filing the completed documents.
• Assist suppliers in developing final test requirements to ensure products meet specifications. Work with the Incoming Quality Control department to evaluate parts and resolve issues.
• Support throughout component lifecycle including setup as components are launched and deactivation as components sunset.
• Supports initiatives to query suppliers to identify potential risks within components that result from evolving regulations.
• Escalate potential supplier manufacturing and compliance issues. Travel to supplier sites as necessary.
• Provide technical support in failure analysis, re-design and drawing updates for discrepant production components, assemblies and field returns.
• Cognitive Skills- 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.
• Influence/Leadership- 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.
• Planning/Organization- Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Decision Making/Impact- 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.
• Supervision Received- Works under general supervision. Follows established procedures. Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment, overall adequacy and accuracy.

Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) in Engineering preferred

Masters Degree (± 18 years) - preferred

• 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area
• Experience with manufacturing processes, including machining, extrusion, molding, welding.
• Experience with GDT (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), quality measurement technique and use of SolidWorks.
• Experience with process validation, 6-sigma root cause analysis and statistical software such as Minitab or JMP preferred.

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