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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• 0 - 2 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area.
• Bilingual. Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Technical/ Business Knowledge: Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures. Limited 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.
• Cognitive Skills: Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. Works on problems of limited scope. Minimal independent decision making. Works under general supervision.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous experience in medical devices or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

• 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.