Supplier Quality Engineer – Onsite, Growth & Impact

Abbott; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP Medical plan

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer for the Vascular division in New Brighton, MN. This is a fully onsite role focused on supplier quality, GMP, ISO/QSR compliance, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, IQA, and design teams.

Responsibilities include qualifying third-party manufacturers, monitoring supplier performance, investigating field failures, and driving corrective actions within a quality system framework.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years related work experience with a good understanding of the 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Support Third Party Manufacturing, perform GMP inspections, 5S, and execute STOP process.
• Support commercial launch at Third Party Manufacturer.
• Work with Design and Development, Manufacturing, Purchasing and IQA when qualifying and monitoring supplier performance.
• A thorough understanding of the ISO/QSRs and the ability to apply that knowledge with an understanding of business operations to achieve regulatory compliance is needed.
• Analyzes and solves problems from basic engineering principles, theories, and concepts through to a wide range of complex problems.
• Incorporates business policies and procedures into task completion.
• Understands the business needs of the company and has knowledge of the customer needs of our business.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Analyzes incoming material defects.
• 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..
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
• 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

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer for the Vascular division in New Brighton, MN. This is a fully onsite role focused on supplier quality, GMP, ISO/QSR compliance, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, IQA, and design teams.

Responsibilities include qualifying third-party manufacturers, monitoring supplier performance, investigating field failures, and driving corrective actions within a quality system framework.