Project Leader Design Quality Assurance - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

Abbott; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 66,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Design Assurance Project Leader in the Nutrition Division. This role involves ensuring product quality and safety from development to commercialization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, utilizing your expertise in food science and regulatory standards to mitigate risks and enhance product manufacturability. This position offers a dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the health and wellness of millions. Embrace the opportunity to grow your career while making a meaningful difference in the lives of people around the world.

Benefits

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Student debt program

Recognition for workplace diversity

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in the food/nutritional industry required.
• Proficient in technical writing and analyzing product data.

Responsibilities

• Assure design and testing compliance for nutritional products.
• Facilitate technical risk management through product development.

Skills

Food Science knowledge

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

FMEA

Technical writing

Analytical thinking

Education

B.S. in Related field (Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology)

Master’s degree

Tools

Quality management systems

HACCP principles

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Project Leader Design Quality Assurance

About Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and 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 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 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division.

The Design Assurance Project Leader will work with product development teams to assure the quality, safety and efficacy of our products from development through commercialization. The Project Leader needs to be team oriented, agile, innovative and able to anticipate and mitigate risks. The Project Leader delivers timely, fact-based analysis and decisions focused on assuring quality products.

The successful candidate works with their functional group peers and managers to execute defined Design Assurance related deliverables to ensure successful scale up to commercial scale manufacturing (successful FLTS process). Together with R&D, Technical Centers and Plant operations, the incumbent assesses critical to quality attributes and ensures the manufacturability of new formulations and products.

This position reports to the Manager, Global Design Assurance. Ensures that all Abbott Nutrition products meet the highest standards for quality required by regulations and is responsible for identifying trends in product performance and adapting or transforming quality processes to achieve breakthrough improvements.

What You’ll Work On

• Assures that the design and testing for all Abbott Nutritional products are fully compliant with applicable regulations.
• Facilitates product technical risk management activities through product development stages.
• Utilizes Food Science knowledge to assure design, evaluate risk and successful manufacture.
• Reviews product, process and package quality performance and identifies quality related issues and trends.
• Works with and provides direction across multiple functions including Supply Chain, R&D, Operations, and Regulatory.
• Works on problems of complex scope that can have significant business impact.
• Identify/gain agreement on design criteria, negotiate compromises, balance quality with other criteria across all functional areas.
• Displays working knowledge of relationships between regulations, labeling, process and product.
• Analyzes product data and technical information to ensure product quality.
• Reviews and approves product related documents and ensures compliance within document management system.
• Displays working knowledge of applicable product regulations and policies.
• Assures food safety through the use of HACCP and Microbiological knowledge.

Background:

• Displays working knowledge of relationships between regulations, labeling, process and product.
• Knowledge of RCA (Root Cause analysis).
• Knowledge of FMEA, risk assessment tools.
• Knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and requirements for infant formula and nutritional products.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and regulatory requirements.
• Proficient technical writing skills; able to effectively and concisely communicate issues.
• Ability to effectively organize and communicate technical information.
• The incumbent must have the ability to work and interact with many cultures in many time zones, and be capable of interpreting and analyzing technical data from different regions for decision making.
• Ability to work independently and/or function with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and analytical thinking.
• Minimum 3-5 years working experience in the food/nutritional industry and experience in the scale-up and commercialization of product innovations.
• Knowledge of HACCP principles.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Related field (Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology or other technical science area); Master’s degree a plus.

MISC:

• This is an on-site role - not a remote role.
• There is no relocation provided for this role.

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The base pay for this position is

$66,700.00 – $133,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY: Operations Quality DIVISION: ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain LOCATION: United States > Columbus : 2900 Easton Square Place ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 10 % of the Time MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday).