QA Supervisor

Abbott Laboratories hiring for QA Supervisor jobs in Temecula, CA, US

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

Our location in Temecula, CA, currently has an opportunity for a QA Supervisor.

THIS IS AND ON-SITE DAILY POSITION.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

In this role you will provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer and provide support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
• Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Monitors daily work operations and provides direction to predominantly nonexempt and entry level staff to achieve unit or departmental goals.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Interprets and executes policies that affect individuals within the assigned organizational unit or department.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc).
• Develops work schedules for department by assessing priorities, workload and available resources.
• Maintains personnel records (e.g., work schedules, vacation schedules, leaves) and makes or directs modifications in the database to reflect actual changes.
• May perform individual contributor tasks, especially in staff or professional units.
• Promotes department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff.
• Leads the activities of assigned staff by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving department objectives.
• Schedules human and material resources within a department or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability; carries out operations within an established budget.
• Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks; generally makes day-to-day decisions within established policies, procedures and guidelines in order to carry out the operations and processes selected at higher levels; consequences of erroneous decisions or recommendations might include delays in program schedules and result in the allocation of more resources.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Provide guidance to less experienced staff. Act as a mentor to lower level individual contributors. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Lead process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's degree plus 2-5+ years of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Minimum Experience / Training Required:

• Monitors progress of nonexempt employees toward departmental goals; monitors costs of projects and human and material resources within a department or unit.
• Prior medical device manufacturing experience required/strongly preferred.
• This role involves supervising 30+ employees. Candidates with prior supervisory/leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Candidate will perform this job in a quality system environment, adhering to quality policies and procedures. Knowledge of ISO, EU-MDR, 21CFR regulatory standards strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of quality tools, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Risk Mitigation strongly preferred.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; facilitates others' participation in the continuous improvement program; investigates and solves basic problems that impact work processes and personnel within a unit or department.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• A fast-paced work environment where your safety is our priority
• Production areas that are clean, well-lit and temperature-controlled
• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future.

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

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The base pay for this position is $57,300.00 – $114,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.