Supplier Quality Engineer I

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.

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The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Supplier Quality Engineer I supports for receiving inspection processes and material non-conformances. Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers to eliminate recurrence of non-conformances. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.

What You’ll Work On

• Work to resolve supplier technical issues in a timely manner to ensure continuity of supply.
• Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary.
• Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• Assists in generating component specifications.
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
• Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
• Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• Trains inspectors to these procedures.
• Communicates issues to suppliers.
• Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
• May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.
• Maintains incoming inspection procedures.
• Develop long term supplier relationships and generate and implement cost reduction ideas.
• Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.

Education And Experience You’ll Bring

• 0-2 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area. Basic technical knowledge and application 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.
• Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Related field. OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience

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The base pay for this position is $53,700.00 – $107,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.