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Abbott Supplier Development Quality Engineer in Westford, Massachusetts

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.

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 .

  • 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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Our location in Westford, MA, currently has an opportunity for a Supplier Development Quality Enginee r.

THIS IS AN ONSITE DAILY POSITION.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

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.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Bachelors Degree (Engineering) and 2-5+ years related work experience REQUIRED . Masters Degree (Engineering) preferred.

Experience Details

  • 2-5+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.

  • Medical Devices experience required.

  • ASQ Certification a plus

  • Six Sigma Black Belt a plus

  • Excellent verbal communication skills a must.

  • 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.

WHAT WE OFFER :

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

  • A fast-paced work environment where your safety is our priority

  • Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance

  • Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans

  • Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs

  • Paid time off

  • 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match

  • The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

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  • Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $57,300.00 – $114,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com

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