Quality Engineer

Thornton Tomasetti; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Process/Quality Engineer to provide support to manufacturing and product development teams, ensuring the delivery of the highest quality products to customers. You will work on process quality plans, reviews, and the development of robust quality systems.

Role involves learning and applying quality tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to risk assessments and improvement initiatives within a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline. Minimum of 1 year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) and disposition nonconforming material.
• Work with process owners to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Review product specifications and quality specs to understand the quality system requirements.
• Learn risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Familiarize with Process Monitoring Systems and methods to reduce process variation.
• Support product/process improvement efforts by analyzing quality metrics.

Skills

Process engineering

Quality engineering

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Quality tools

Quality systems

Job description

Working at Abbott

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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

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.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning nonconforming 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.


• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline. Minimum of 1 year of experience

The base pay for this position is $73,900.00 – $116,000.00

JOB FAMILY: Operations Quality DIVISION: HF Heart Failure LOCATION: United States > Pleasanton : 6035 Stoneridge Dr ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % of the Time MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

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

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well‑being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.