Supplier Development Quality Engineer I

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.

• 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 a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

The Supplier Development Quality Engineer is responsible for activities related to material qualification, supplier performance and receiving inspection.  Contributes to the development, establishment and maintenance of supplier quality engineering methodologies, systems and practices which meet company and regulatory requirements.

What You’ll Work On

• Upholds Division approval requirements to supplier and monitors feedback per project timelines

• Analyzes incoming material defects

• Communicates issues to suppliers

• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.

• Owner of Non-Conforming Material Reports (NCMERs) issued to supplier for nonconforming supplied material and works with the supplier on the investigation and root cause analysis

• Notifies suppliers of customer complaints related to failures resulting from supplied material and requires investigation and corrective action.

• Monitors supplier performance and reports supplier quality trend data.

• Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.

• Responsible for generating and approving First Article Inspections

• Leads projects with a cross-functional team for supplier requested changes or improvements. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• 0-2 years of related work experience  

• Quality Assurance experience in the medical device or pharmaceutical, or other quality managed industries. 

• Working knowledge of applicable regulations, such as FDA QSR, ISO, MDD, &/or IVDD. 

• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills.

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