Quality Engineer

Job description

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Learns to identify manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding

corrective and preventative actions.

• May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.;
• Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems. May be responsible for learning risk analyses and FMEAs.;
• Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps; and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation.;
• Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development;
• Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.
• Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.;
• Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.;
• May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.
• Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree plus 0-2 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures.
• Limited 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.;
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems.
• Works on problems of limited scope. Minimal independent decision making.

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