Supplier Quality Engineer II

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Fortune enrichment recognition

Job summary

Abbott’s Minnetonka location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division seeks a Supplier Quality Engineer II to drive supplier quality improvements for external components. You will assess suppliers, define acceptance criteria, and support new supplier integrations in a cross-functional team.

Role focuses on developing testing protocols, improving materials quality, and guiding corrective actions to prevent field failures. Strong knowledge of QA systems is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent education/experience.
• Masters degree preferred.
• 2-5 years of related work experience.
• Working knowledge of quality systems and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities.
• Provide technical support for introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generate and maintain incoming inspection procedures; train inspectors.
• Develops inspection tools/equipment and assist in defining component specs.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on component tech and reliability analysis.
• Investigate field failures related to supplier materials.
• Lead corrective actions and mentor inspectors when applicable.

Skills

Supplier evaluation

Quality engineering

Inspection procedures

Test protocols

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree preferred

2-5 years experience

Tools

Inspection tools

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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'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 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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Minnetonka, MN location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Supplier Quality Enginee r II drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.

What You'll Work On

• Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities.
• Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier.
• Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
• Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment.
• Assists in generating component specifications.
• Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
• Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• Communicates issues to suppliers.
• Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
• Investigates field failures related to supplier materials.
• Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
• May supervise inspectors.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

• Bachelors Degree Related field OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Masters Degree Preferred
• Minimum 2 years
• 2-5 years of 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.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

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