Quality Engineer II

Title: Quality Engineer II

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Duration: 12 Month

100 Onsite

Business Mission:

Our purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease. We aim to lead the markets we serve by ensuring the solutions we offer provide an improved benefit/risk profile compared to existing standards of care. This performance threshold guides our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts to produce outcomes that advance the standard of care.

What You’ll Do

Process/Quality Engineering Support:

• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing to ensure the highest quality product is delivered to customers.
• Support product development teams to help ensure the highest quality in new product development.

Responsibilities:

• Learn to identify manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, assisting in root cause identification, and understanding corrective and preventative actions.
• May work with process owners to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Gain understanding of product quality plans, documentation, and systems by reviewing product and quality specifications, and working within quality systems.
• Learn process monitoring systems through familiarization with system applications and critical process steps, including methods to reduce process variation.
• Become familiar with product and process improvement efforts by analyzing current quality metric data and understanding analysis methods for enhancing both sustaining and new product development.
• Learn quality tools and training materials by reviewing and utilizing available resources.
• Begin developing a network of internal resources to facilitate task completion.
• Complete daily work to meet established schedules, with guidance from a supervisor on task prioritization.
• May exercise authority within pre-established limits and with necessary approvals.
• Failure to achieve results can typically be managed without serious impact on schedules or programs.
• May be responsible for learning and supporting risk analyses and FMEAs.

Influence / Leadership:

• Begin developing internal networks.
• Influence is typically at the peer level.

Planning / Organization:

• Completes daily work as scheduled with supervisor guidance.

Decision Making / Impact:

• Exercises limited authority within pre-established boundaries.
• Minimal impact expected from failure to achieve results.

Education and Experience You’ll Bring

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• 2–5 years of related work experience with a basic understanding of the functional area.
• Basic technical knowledge of related concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Limited understanding of the business unit or group function.
• Will perform job duties within a quality system environment; failure to perform adequately can lead to noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies/procedures to solve routine problems.
• Works on problems of limited scope with minimal independent decision-making.

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

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, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.