Quality Assurance Manager

Job Title

Quality Assurance Manager

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 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.

Our location in Temecula, CA currently has an opportunity for a Manager, Quality Assurance

THIS IS AN ONSITE DAILY ROLE.

As the Manager, Quality Assurance, you will lead the team of Quality supervisors/engineers/technicians to support Manufacturing, Supplier Development, New Product Development, Distribution/Warehouse Value Added Services, and Quality Systems. You will directs projects to ensure the manufacture of high quality product and to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Implement a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
• Develop direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Monitor daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to, experienced exempt employees, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
• Interact with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Interpret and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
• Contribute to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
• Monitor compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc).
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of area budgets through regular analysis of cost and spending.
• Translate department goals into individual objectives and KRAs.
• Identifies, develop and implement processes to improve department performance.
• Monitor departmental activities and records to ensure compliance independent action through critical decision making.
• Provide manufacturing support by defining work assignments directed to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements utilizing Quality System tools.
• May also direct work assignments for quality control auditors.
• Direct Quality personnel to support new product development by defining projects focused on new products/process development based on coordination with management, project leaders, & design engineers.
• Implement improvements to Quality Systems and tools by directing personnel to gather data on existing quality tools, identify weaknesses, and research/select new tools based on findings.
• Ensure sustaining support of Quality System and regulatory compliance by individually working quality system issues and by delegating project work for maintaining quality system capability.
• Promote the attainment of group goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff.
• Provide leadership to assigned units by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving group objectives.
• Schedule human and material resources within a group or section in conjunction with near‐term plans to ensure their availability.
• Carry out operations within an established budget.
• Assignments are expressed in the form of…