Senior Supplier 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.
• 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 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 Westfield, IN location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Analyzes and investigates material defects related to complex issues discovered at incoming inspection, manufacturing and in the field using problem solving methodologies to drive to root cause.

• Determines and executes appropriate material disposition strategies to support commercial demands. Provides guidance in root cause investigations and CAPA’s.

• Leads moderately complex initiatives to eliminate/reduce nonconformances, improve efficiencies and drive down cost in the organization and at the supplier. Collaborates with suppliers to implement corrective actions through the CAPA process to eliminate/reduce future nonconformances.

• Acts as a liaison between Abbott and suppliers for cross functional projects and manages supplier driven activities.

• Maintains component specifications for approved components. Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to respective procedures.

• Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment. Qualifies tool and equipment. Plans and executes test method validations including analysis of data using statistical techniques.

• Provides support for material qualifications of new components, second sourcing projects and changes to approved components.

• Plans and executes supplier audits. Manages supplier investigations and corrective actions related to supplier audit findings.

• Establishes and cultivates an extensive network of support to facilitate completion of assignments. Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel.

• Leads a project team. Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects. Influences middle management on technical or business solutions. Interacts with suppliers in a professional manner.

• Plans, organizes, and establish priorities of daily work routine, project tasks and work assignments to meet planned due dates and timelines. Ability to manage a variety of due dates simultaneously.

• Exercises judgment using a risk-based approach when necessary in proposing innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.

Qualifications

Required 

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. 
• Good organizational and project management skills.
• Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures. 
• Ability to independently execute problem solving methodologies to obtain root cause and propose corrective and/or preventative actions to eliminate/reduce future nonconformances.
• Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills; critical-thinking skills. Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.

Preferred 

• Advanced degree preferred.

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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

$75,300.00 – $150,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:Operations Quality

DIVISION:SH Structural Heart

LOCATION:United States > Westfield: 1820 Bastian Court

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.

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