Staff Quality Engineer
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Job Location:
Westford, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 99300 - 198700
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title
Staff 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. Youll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
- 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 bachelors 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
We currently have an opening for a Staff Quality Engineer for the Vascular division. This role can be located at our Westford MA location.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents bare metal stents guide wires balloon dilatation catheters imaging catheters and software vessel closure devices and peripheral stents
What youll do:
Develop and implement strategies for Process/Quality Engineering that help to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.
Core Job Responsibilities:
- 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 through structured Problem Solving.
- Responsible for identifying issues through data queries and analytics to aid in decision making implement complex product stops & develop release criteria.
- Develops and implements Process Monitoring Systems or other early warning systems that can detect and identify critical process inputs and devising methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
- Leads Product/Process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by identifying & performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product quality.
- Coaches and develops cross-functional teams with expertise in problem solving CAPA and data analytic tools
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOULL BRING
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 9 years Related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area.
- Related work experience with a complete understanding of specified functional area.
- Comprehensive knowledge of a particular technological field. Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships.
- Is recognized as an expert in work group and across functions. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
- Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.
Preferred Qualifications
- Medical Device experience highly preferred.
- Has demonstrated experience of statistical analysis and problem solving techniques
- Understands the regulated business environment and interfaces with a variety of management levels requiring the coordination of activity across the organization. Provides Quality leadership across the organization.
- Practical understanding of statistics
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certifications preferred.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:
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 base pay for this position is
$99300.00 $198700.00In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality
DIVISION:
AVD Vascular
LOCATION:
United States > Massachusetts > Westford : 4 Robbins Road
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes 10 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
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