Senior Quality Engineer

Abbott Laboratories hiring for Senior Quality Engineer jobs in Scarborough, ME, 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 Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position Senior Quality Engineer is within our Infectious Disease business unit located at all sites within the Scarborough QMS. In this role you will be responsible for Providing Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products at the Scarborough Site.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by leading efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• May be responsible for implementing product stops & documenting release criteria.
  Develops and 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.
  May be responsible for risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Develops and 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.
• Collects and analyzes Lead Manufacturing process defect data Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g. scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data and performing the appropriate analysis method(s) to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
• Creates Quality Tools & Training Materials by applying body of knowledge/expertise and communicating to respective teams.
• Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel.  May lead a project team.
• Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects. Influences middle management on technical or business solutions.
• May interact with vendors.
• Plans and organizes non-routine tasks with approval.
• Initiates or maintains work schedule.
• Establishes priorities of work assignments. (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.
• Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field (science, engineering, etc.…)
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience.
• Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures. Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Has a sound knowledge of various technical alternatives and their impact.

Preferred

• Master's Degree
• Certification as a Certified Quality Engineer preferred.

The base pay for this position is $72,700.00 – $145,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.