Supplier Quality Engineer II

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, you can do work that matters, grow, 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 student debt program, and education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company that is 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.

This position works out of our Plymouth, MN location in the Electrophysiology Division. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. The Supplier Quality Engineer II role will drive improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers, provide technical support in the selection of suppliers, develop acceptance criteria for materials, and monitor supplier performance to drive corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.

• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities.
• Provide technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generate and maintain incoming inspection procedures. Train inspectors to these procedures.
• Develop and/or source inspection tools and equipment.
• Assist in generating component specifications.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
• Analyze incoming material defects.
• Communicate issues to suppliers.
• Review new design specifications and provide input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigate field failures related to supplier materials.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Disposition and drive corrective action as necessary.
• May supervise inspectors.
• Cultivate a wide range of internal networks and begin to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Provide guidance to less experienced staff. Act as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors.
• Exercise influence at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plan, organize, and prioritize own daily work routine to meet an established schedule.
• Exercise authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may require the allocation of additional resources.

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 2‑5 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of the specified functional area.
• 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…