Quality Engineer

Location: United States - South Carolina - Liberty

Category: Quality

Employment Type: Full time

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 Title

Quality Engineer

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 of which you dream.
• 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.
• 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 Liberty, SC location. This is an onsite role.    

The Quality Engineer is involved in all aspects of the manufacturing operation from assessing equipment needs, to documenting installation, qualification, and ongoing validation of equipment and processes. The Quality Engineer is also expected to assist in the identification and resolution of quality related issues.

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.

What You’ll Work On

• Implements Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps which could culminate in possible sources of manufacturing defects and devising methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
• Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by assisting efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Implements product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members.
• Interfaces with Safety Regulatory Agencies as required ensuring compliant product is released.
• Provides quality engineering support to the site to ensure manufacturing/quality requirements are met.
• Understands and elevate issues related quality validations.
• Contribute to the development of appropriate reliability program for the division/site.
• Lead/Assist in writing, executing, and analyzing various types of protocols (i.e. engineering studies, verification protocols, validation, etc.).
• Provides assistance or lead projects as assigned.
• Helps assure that Division projects meet scheduled dates and are compliant with the regulations.
• May be involved in all levels of projects from simple design changes to total design changes.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Related Field
• 2 years’ Quality Assurance, Manufacturing or Engineering experience and demonstrated use of Quality tools/methodologies.
• Working Knowledge of applicable regulations, compliance requirements, quality systems, and engineering / quality principles as relates to applicable manufacturing environment, preferably consumable goods.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Process Improvement
• Experience with GLP Improvements
• Experience with Inspections and Validations
• Experience with Scrap Reduction
• Six Sigma, a plus

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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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The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.