Lead Specialist Quality Assurance

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 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Lead 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 you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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

As the Lead Specialist Quality Assurance you will be responsible for conducting and completing quality-related activities for third party manufacturing (TPM) oversight and to support a TPM in maintaining compliance with Abbott internal and external requirements.

This position will be located at our Austin TX Flex facility.

What Youll Work On

• This position is responsible for providing quality oversight of a TPM and supporting quality compliance related activities. Specifically
• Manage TPM oversight activities including but not limited to scorecards communications SCARs etc.
• Provide quality support and oversight of compliance readiness activities related to a TPM
• Ensure that processes equipment and procedures used in the support of the Quality System are maintained in compliance with applicable regulatory local site and Abbott requirements
• Review documentation (including but not limited to scorecards communications change control records investigations etc.) for accuracy clarity consistency completeness and compliance
• Plan and complete assignments with a wide degree of difficulty while maintaining milestones established in the project schedule
• Analyze data procedures and requirements to ensure quality and compliance
• Collaborate with alternate functional teams (including but not limited to engineering operations regulatory program management and other quality teams) to ensure consideration is given to financial and business outcomes when making quality decisions
• Coordinate activities across multiple project groups
• Accept ownership and responsibility for decisions
• Effectively engage with team members within Abbott and TPM teams and
• Provide guidance coaching and training to various functions and colleagues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Life Science Engineering or closelyrelated discipline or an equivalent combination of education and workexperience
• Minimum 8 years In Quality or related field experience; Less experience may be appropriate with advanceddegree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Quality experience in the medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturing industries.
• History of completing successful projects and driving positive compliance outcomes.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10000 people have healthier hearts improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders and liberate more than 500000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

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.

Diabetes

Were focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. Were revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative minimally invasive and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbotts Electrophysiology (EP) business were 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.

HF

In Abbotts Heart Failure (HF) business were developing solutions to diagnose monitor and manage heart failure allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day more than 10 million tests are run on Abbotts diagnostics instruments providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas including infectious disease cardiometabolic informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests instruments and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the worlds greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to lifes critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible molecular-based solutions.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac PediaSure Pedialyte Ensure and Glucerna to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is

$99300.00 $198700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Operations Quality

ADC Diabetes Care

United States > Texas > Austin : 12501B Research Boulevard

Standard

Not specified

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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) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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