Associate Quality Engineer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

bout 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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days.

• 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Vascular Plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico s an Associate Quality Engineer you will serve as the primary engineering personnel supporting quality operations in AVPR. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer by assisting in the identification and resolution of quality related issues. The Associate Quality Engineer will work with line supervisor, manufacturing engineer, and other team members, to address all opportunities found in the assigned manufacturing line and will be the primary quality representative for the area. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

What You'll Do

• Work with line support team (QC Supervisor, Mfg Supervisor, Quality Engineer and Operations) to perform line situation triage and determine if non-conformance is present, determine initial bracketing and containment, and support generation of ER, if needed.

• Responsible for product/process knowledge and understanding of basic cause and effect of line and process changes. - Responsible for providing the line with related Engineering fixes, such as tooling (TLTs) and Manufacturing Aids (from idea definition to implementation)

• Support maintenance technicians and supervisors in equipment availability issues. Review equipment work order completion and performs product impact analysis in order to release equipment for commercial manufacturing use.

• Support Training and Certification Program.

• Responsible for determining quality impact of Out-of-Tolerance documents.

• Responsible for execution of line related change management (material, equipment and process changes). Responsible for CO and simple CR generation related to changes impacting the manufacturing line.

• Responsible for simple continuous improvement projects development and execution.

• Responsible for exception subtask execution.

• Evaluate ideas from the LPI program for potential implementation.

• Leads root cause analysis efforts for basic/simple manufacturing events, utilizing DMAIC model and A3s. Supports CAPA (Major) investigations with data gathering and analysis as needed.

• Run studies and validations on the line as needed. Writes protocols and reports with oversight. - Line support representative for related projects such as yield improvements, CIP's, productivity, quality and safety.

• Responsible for coordination of product builds through the NPI process.

• Generate simple changes to the eLHR system.

• Demonstrate basic understanding of regulations (Compliance and EHS) for work area. Provides recommendations for improvement and executes as needed. May initiate, investigate and/or approve CAPA records.

• Support EHS and/or Reg Compliance audits.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education Level Major/Field of Study

Bachelor's Degree In Engineering.

Experience/Background

• Non experience required. 1+ of years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) 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.

• (Cognitive Skills) Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. Works on problems of limited scope. Minimal independent decision making. Works under general supervision.

• Fully bilingual English-Spanish.

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The base pay for this position is $44,700.00 - $89,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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