Quality Engineer I Jobs

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Quality Engineer I

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

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:

• 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 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.
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Westfield, IN location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

As the Quality Engineer I, you’ll 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.

What You’ll Work On

• Leads 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.
• Responsible for implementing minor and major changes to manufacturing procedures and quality procedure and follow change management process.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product development team members.
• Identifies and controls 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.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Assists 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.
• Completes Nonconformance Exceptions and CAPA including identification, disposition of affected product, investigation and corrective actions for manufacturing, quality systems, audits, and complaints nonconformances.
• May be responsible for creating risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Acts as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• May be responsible for querying & bounding data to support implementation of complex & documenting release criteria.

Required Qualifications

• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
• Bachelors Degree
• 1+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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