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Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Abbott Laboratories companyDes Plaines, IL, United States
5 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

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.

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

Abbott Molecular is hiring a Quality Engineer I at our Des Plaines, IL location within the Quality Assurance organization. This role will support 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.

WHAT YOU WILL 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 non-conforming 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 yield 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

  • BS degree in Engineering or Technical Field or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred
  • 2 years' experience
  • 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.
  • Apply Now

    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 $50,000.00 - $100,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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