Associate Quality Engineer

Abbott Laboratories; Barceloneta (PR); On-site; USD 44,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Quality Engineer to join their dynamic team in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. In this exciting role, you will support manufacturing processes, ensuring the highest quality standards are met for innovative medical devices. You'll engage in problem-solving, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to product quality plans. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow within a respected company that values diversity and fosters career development. If you're passionate about quality engineering and eager to make a difference in healthcare, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Insurance

401K with company match

Life Insurance

Education Assistance

Employee Assistance Program

Vacation Days

Sick Days

Personal Days

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required with 0-2 years of experience.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish with proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing.
• Assist in identifying and resolving quality-related issues.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure product quality.

Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Quality Assurance

Process Improvement

Digital Skills (Microsoft Office)

Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Quality Tools

Process Monitoring Systems

Job description

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.

This is a Pipeline requisition for future opportunities in 2025.

Associate Quality Engineer for Vascular, this position is based in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days.
• 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Barceloneta, PR location in the Vascular Division. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

As the Associate Quality Engineer, you will provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of the highest quality product to the customer by assisting in the identification and resolution of quality-related issues. The Associate Quality Engineer will work with line supervisor, manufacturing engineer, and other team members, to address all opportunities found in the assigned manufacturing line and will be the primary quality representative for the area.

What You’ll Do

• 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 complaints) 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• 0-2 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Advanced proficiency in English and Spanish. Speaking, listening, reading and writing.
• Digital skills: Microsoft office.

Preferred Qualifications

Former co-op students at Abbott are highlighted as preferred candidates for the Associate Quality Engineer.

Apply now

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $44,700.00 – $89,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.