Quality Engineer — Altavista VA Plant

Thornton Tomasetti; United States; On-site; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Competitive retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Job summary

Abbott Nutrition in Altavista, VA seeks a quality-focused professional to identify and control manufacturing defects and lead process improvements. You will develop product quality plans, risk analyses, and monitoring systems in collaboration with the product development team.

This role requires experience with quality tools, mentoring, and ensuring compliance with FDA/OSHA and Abbott policies while driving continuous improvement across processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum two years related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• General understanding of business unit/group function.

Responsibilities

• Identify and control Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Develop product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product development team members.
• Develop Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Lead process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Provide guidance to less experienced staff; mentor to lower level contributors; ensure compliance with FDA/OSHA and Abbott policies.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Two years experience

Technical knowledge

Business understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s Degree

Job description

Abbott Nutrition in Altavista, VA seeks a quality-focused professional to identify and control manufacturing defects and lead process improvements. You will develop product quality plans, risk analyses, and monitoring systems in collaboration with the product development team.

This role requires experience with quality tools, mentoring, and ensuring compliance with FDA/OSHA and Abbott policies while driving continuous improvement across processes.