Quality Engineering Technician IV

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.

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• 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.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Provides independent evaluation of materials, components, product and work process within the quality system. Provides technical assistance to support efforts ensuring the quality of the product. Assists engineering in validations, testing and troubleshooting process to improve processes and product. Assists engineers in developing methods and procedures to control or improve the processes. Ensures proper performance of tasks from other peers (no direct line reporting and people management duties are involved).

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures

• Review material, equipment and systems quality through examination, inspection, measurement or testing of raw materials, components, subassemblies, packaging, labeling and documentation

• Audits and verifies processes such a line verification or environmental conformity to prevent quality system and manufacturing impact

• Reviews and verifies compliance of quality and manufacturing documentation such batch records, reports of nonconforming material and inspection records

• Execute quality testing of samples as part of its daily activities with no / little guidance from Quality Engineer

• Identifies and segregates nonconforming material from the production line according to governing documents. Coordinates with Quality Engineer to prepare and handle the material in and out of the designated quarantine area

• Coordinates proper material segregation and identification when in-process nonconformances are identified

• Proposes and executes product acceptance testing, sampling, inspection, classification or disposal based on engineering disposition. Ensures that all evidence documentation complies with governing procedures

• Performs root cause analysis and provide corrections, preventive and corrective actions to assigned nonconformances under any quality figure from the Abbott Quality System as requested by Quality Supervisor

• Assists engineering in providing manufacturing support by reviewing and analyzing data to determine manufacturing issues or trends

• Performs data compilation and analysis to determine processes behaviors, trends, improvement opportunities, validation inputs, etc.

• Resolves and prevents manufacturing issues by assisting engineering in determining root cause and implementing corrective and preventive actions

• Develops and implements process improvement by assisting engineering in researching and validating changes in processes or equipment and test methods to improve yield or reduce cycle time per established procedures

• Leads process and documents changes related to nonconformance actions (corrective, preventive or corrections) or process improvement projects and executing all required activities to implement it as: generated document redlines, write and submit Change Order requests, form and inform the group involved in the change, etc.

• Troubleshoots and provides inputs to engineering, qualification and validation studies and reports by collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing, recording and analyzing data according to written procedures

• Executions of validation activities defined by protocols

• Assists to sets up and trains new or transferred Quality Technicians

• Contributes to generate work schedules when required by Quality Supervisor • Assists supervisor with delegation daily activities to other associates

• Ensures appropriate process completion for Internal Customer Signal (ICS): units’ delivery and examination, root cause analysis, document investigation, complete corrections or actions as required. Delegates or coordinates with the functional team all related activities

• Prepares quality data for Functional Team, cross site meetings and monthly Quality Reports. Assists Quality Engineering by presenting quality updates when required

• Assists in the writing of Build as Risk (BAR's) forms and the approval process

• Support readiness activities for audits

• Assists to sets up and in the training for the new or transferred Quality Technicians

• 80% of university credits Engineering, quality or related fields
• 4 years of experience at medical device companies or equivalent
• Knowledge or technical concepts and/or basic develops technologies or processes.
• Understanding of product or systems fundamentals in cross functional areas. Experience on Interpret and utilize numerical and statistical data to present documentation, analysis and resolve problems. 
• Knowledge of Quality Systems/engineering required. 
• Proficiency in computer applications (MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint)
• Intermediate Commands of English to Advance Commands of English / Required

• Statistical knowledge including statistical software (Minitab, JMP) 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Microsoft Office: intermediate to advance level 
• Certified Quality Technician (CQT) or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)

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