Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• 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 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

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

We have an opening for a Sr. Quality Engineer at our Minnetonka, MN site within our Electrophysiology division. This position will provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing for commercially released product, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.

What You’ll Work On

• Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by leading efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for implementing product stops & documenting release criteria.
• Develops and implements product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.
• May be responsible for risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Develops and implements Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps which could culminate in possible sources of manufacturing defects and devising methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Collects and analyzes Lead Manufacturing process defect data Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g. scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data and performing the appropriate analysis method(s) to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Creates Quality Tools & Training Materials by applying body of knowledge/expertise and communicating to respective teams.
• Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel.  May lead a project team.
• Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects. Influences middle management on technical or business solutions.
• May interact with vendors.
• Plans and organizes non-routine tasks w/approval. Initiates or maintains work schedule.
• Establishes priorities of work assignments.
• Exercises judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.
• Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience with CAPAs and non conformance processes
• Knowledge of quality requirements within medical devices or similar regulated industry

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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• capa
• quality requirements (medical devices)
• nonconformance processes
• fmea
• risk analysis
• process monitoring systems
• quality plans
• manufacturing defect analysis
• product specifications
• quality tools
• data analysis
• project leadership
• training material development
• vendor management
• guidance and work direction
• stakeholder communication