Quality Engineer III

Location: Costa Rica - Alajuela

Category: Quality

Employment Type: Full time

About Abbott

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 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Coyol Free Zone location in the Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

As the Quality Engineer IV, you’ll have the chance to apply scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline. 

This role requires to provide quality support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of the highest quality product to the customer. Provide support to Development /Improvement teams for new or existing products. 

What You’ll Do

• Apply quality principles, analyzes quality records, prepares reports and recommends improvements.
• Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.
• Identify and address recurring problems either with the quality of the product or the reliability of testing procedures.
• Document quality issues and performance measures for management review.
• Interfaces with internal company contacts and external network.
• Plans and conducts high level assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally. Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities.
• Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.
• Predicts patterns/trends. Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations.
• Shift: Admin

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in engineering, science or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical. 
•  4 years of experience in medical device or related industries. 
• Intermediate commands of English​ (B1)

Preferred Qualifications

• Quality Background desired. 

• FDA/ISO regulation knowledge. 

• CQE / CQA / Lean/ Six Sigma certification is desired. 

• Statistic’s knowledge. 

• Personal skills needed include Leadership, accountability, tact, open-mindedness, maturity, tenacity, decisiveness, self/reliance, scientific thinking, Diligency, Resourcefulness, customer focus. Capable to persuade and motivate others to improve quality. Effective communication skills. 

Apply Now

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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