Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer – Abbott (Temecula, CA)

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. As a member of the Abbott Vascular Division in Temecula, CA, the Quality Engineer works on innovative, minimally invasive, cost‑effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.
• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.
• 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 preventative actions. May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems. May be responsible for learning 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.
• Work is closely supervised. Follows specific, detailed instructions. Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks. Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
• Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
• May exercise authority within pre‑established limits and approval. Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 2+ years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 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.
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. Works on problems of limited scope. Minimal independent decision making.

• Experience with plastics/extrusion.

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• 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.

Base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• Seniority Level: Entry level
• Employment Type:
  
  Full-time
• Job Function:
  Quality Assurance
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
• Location:
  
  Temecula, CA

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.