Specialist Quality Assurance
Saint Paul, MN - USA
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title
Specialist Quality Assurance
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 an Quality Assurance Specialist for the Vascular division. This role is located at our St. Paul MN location. This is a fully onsite role.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action manufacturing yield issues and field failures.
- Assess potential new suppliers for technical quality and manufacturing capabilities.
- Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
- Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
- Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
- Assists in generating component specifications.
- Generate test protocols monitor testing issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
- Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
- Analyzes incoming material defects.
- Communicates issues to suppliers.
- Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
- Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
- Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
- May supervise inspectors.
- Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
- May lead a project team of moderate scope.
- Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
- Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
- Plans organizes and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
- Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
- Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOULL BRING
Minimum Education
- Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Required Qualifications
- 2 years related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
- Working technical knowledge and application of concepts practices and procedures.
- 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. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
- Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
- Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
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
$61300.00 $122700.00In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality
DIVISION:
AVD Vascular
LOCATION:
United States > Minnesota > St. Paul : 1225 Old Highway 8 NW
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes 5 % 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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