Associate 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: 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.   Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.   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 you dream of. • 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 • Will be an onsite position at our Irving, TX office.   Associate Quality Engineer will provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality products to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.    What You’ll Work On • Responsible for following compliance from Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.   • Owns basic exception / CAPA activities with management oversight.  • Implements minor changes through change management system and may support major change implementation.  • Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects. Assist Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g). scrap, nonconforming product, customer complains) by systematically gathering quality metric data and by assisting in the appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design.  • Leads process improvement efforts to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.  • Assists in creation of Quality Tools & Training Materials identifying more effective tools & materials.  • Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.  • Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.  • Exercises judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.    Required Qualifications • 0 - 2 years  of related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.    Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family li