Quality Engineer: Manufacturing & Quality Systems

Abbott Laboratories; Pokeno; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Medical insurance

Wellbeing support

Competitive rewards

Job summary

Abbott is a global healthcare leader. Abbott's nutrition division develops science-based products loved by babies, children and adults. The Quality Engineer will support manufacturing, validation, and continuous improvement across processes and equipment in Pokeno, Waikato.

The role emphasizes collaboration with regulatory bodies, quality plans, risk analyses, and root-cause investigations while driving defect reduction and compliant product release.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2 years in a similar position or food manufacturing context.
• Strong project management and attention to detail for quality system docs.
• Clear written and verbal communication for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Interface with Regulatory Agencies to ensure compliant product release.
• Provide quality engineering support to meet manufacturing and quality requirements.
• Identify and elevate quality validation issues.
• Create quality plans, specifications, risk analyses and FMEAs with cross-functional teams.
• Develop process monitoring to reduce defects and variation.
• Contribute to reliability programs for the site/division.
• Lead or assist in writing/performing protocols and analyses.
• Lead projects or provide support as assigned.
• Reduce defects (scrap, nonconforming material, complaints) via root-cause actions.
• Help ensure projects meet deadlines and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Quality engineering

Project management

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Technical or related field

Tools

FMEAs

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader. Abbott's nutrition division develops science-based products loved by babies, children and adults. The Quality Engineer will support manufacturing, validation, and continuous improvement across processes and equipment in Pokeno, Waikato.

The role emphasizes collaboration with regulatory bodies, quality plans, risk analyses, and root-cause investigations while driving defect reduction and compliant product release.