Quality Project Coordinator Jobs

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• 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.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• 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 PLeasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division.

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Manages the development and implementation process of company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.

What You’ll Work On

• Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope of effort.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.; 6. (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with SQA to develop and execute project quality plans.
• Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project.
• Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources
• Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
• Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques.
• Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.
• Participates in external project management organizations, conferences and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management by joining professional associations and implementing a professional development plan with focus on project management.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.

Required Qualifications

• General 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.
• (Cognitive Skills) 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 (± 16 years) Related Field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Masters Degree (± 18 years) Preferred
• Minimum 2 years - Related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.

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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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The salary for this role is between $65,200 – $130,400