Assoc. Quality Engineer

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Job Title Assoc. 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 We are seeking an Associate Quality Engineer to work at our Temecula, CA location in our Vascular division. The Associate Quality Engineer provides process/quality engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provides process/quality engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products. 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. WHAT YOU’LL DO Core Job Responsibilities Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. • Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning nonconforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventative actions. May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.  • Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.  May be responsible for learning risk analyses and FMEAs.  • Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps; and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation. • Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.  • Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials. • (Supervision Received) Work is closely supervised. Follows specific, detailed instructions.  • (Influence/Leadership) Begins developing a network of internal resources to  facilitate completion of tasks. Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.  • (Planning/Organization) Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.