Job Description

Working 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.
• 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 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

This position works Onsite in our St. Paul Minnesota location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

What Youll Work On

• Ability to effectively communicate, facilitate and organize project activities relating to ensuring supplier quality. Develops and manages project schedules to ensure deadlines are met.
• Serves as the primary Quality contact for suppliers and provides technical assistance to management for suppliers as requested.
• Works with supplier development engineering to perform on-site annual and critical component supplier audits to ensure compliance with Quality Systems procedures and CSI requirements. Generates audit reports and ensures supplier audit findings are tracked to timely and closure.
• Provides quality systems input to suppliers such as, but not limited to: statistical process control, gage R&R studies, and capability studies.
• Resolves supplier quality issues at incoming inspection and the production line. Provides project team leadership and conducts investigations relating to supplier quality issues. Completes non-conforming material reports (NCMR), supplier requests for change (SRC), supplier corrective action requests (SCARs) and monitors follow-up with assigned supplier base.
• Routinely reports on supplier performance per defined metrics to management and other team members.
• Represent Quality during audits and interface with FDA, ISO, or any external auditor.

Required Qualifications

• 4 Year / Bachelors Degree plus a minimum of 1-3 years engineering related experience.
• Familiarity with quality improvement tools, including statistical methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or Science Preferred
• In a manufacturing environment, medical device industry preferred.
• Working knowledge of ANSI standard sampling plans.
• Demonstrated team leadership skills, interpersonal skills, organizational skills, verbal and written communication skills, and analytical skills and application of critical thinking.
• Familiarity with personal computer software including word processing, spreadsheet, and statistical programs.
• Working knowledge of Quality System requirements, including FDA GMPs and ISO 13485 and documentation procedures.
• Travel approx 15%

The base pay for this position is $60,000.00 $120,000.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Family: Product Development

Division: AVD Vascular

Location: United States > Minnesota > St. Paul : 1225 Old Highway 8 NW

Additional Locations:

Work Shift: Standard

Travel: No

Medical Surveillance: Not Applicable

Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting 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.