Associate Quality Engineer

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Description

Job Title

Associate Quality Engineer

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to

improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days.

• 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 Caguas location in the SH Division as a

global leader we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart.

As the Associate Quality Engineer, you will provide Process/Quality

Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer by assisting in the identification and resolution of quality related issues. The Associate Quality Engineer will work with line supervisor, manufacturing engineer, and other team members, to address all opportunities found in the assigned manufacturing line and will be the primary quality representative for the area.

This is an exempt role: Administrative Shift

What You’ll Do

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional

Policies and procedures.

• Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming

material, customer complaints) by dispositioning nonconforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventive actions.

• Works with line support team (QC Supervisor, Mfg Supervisor, Quality

Engineer and Operations) to perform line situation triage and determine if non-conformance is present, determine initial bracketing and containment, and initiate exception management process.

• Owns basic exception / CAPA activities with management oversight.

• May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops

and document release criteria.

• Responsible for lot-to-lot ield and rework evaluation.

• Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents, and systems by

reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.

• Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by

providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.

• May be responsible for providing input to risk analyses and FMEAs.

• Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems

applications and critical process steps; and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation.

• Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by

understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.

• Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of

prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.

• Assist Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g). scrap, nonconforming

product, customer complains) by systematically gathering quality metric data and by assisting in the appropriated analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design.

• Runs routine problem-solving investigation with direction and use of

basic engineering principles.

• Implements minor changes through change management system and may support

major change implementation.

• May write protocols and reports with management oversight to support

engineering studies and validations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.

• 0 - 2 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area. Previous experience in medical devices or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

• Bilingual. Fluent in English and Spanish.

Apply Now

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

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The base pay for this position is

$45,000.00 – $89,800.00

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

JOB FAMILY:

Operations Quality

DIVISION:

SH Structural Heart

LOCATION:

Puerto Rico > Caguas : West Industrial Park Calle B, Lote #20

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

No

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), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time 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.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf