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Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Drives improvement and corrective action in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection of suppliers. Develops acceptance criteria for materials. Monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures.
What You'll Work On
Upholds Division approval requirements to supplier and monitors feedback per project timelines.
Analyzes incoming material defects.
Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
Owner of Non-Conforming Material Reports (NCMRs) issued to supplier for nonconforming supplied material and works with the supplier on the investigation and root cause analysis.
Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products.
Communicates issues to suppliers.
Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective.
Leads projects with a cross-functional team for supplier requested changes or improvements.
Notifies suppliers of customer complaints related to failures resulting from supplied material and requires investigation and corrective action.
Develop corrective action plan where necessary. Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary.
Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
May lead a project team of moderate scope.
Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
What You'll Work On
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Minimum of 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
General understanding of business unit/group function.
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 moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
The base pay for this position is
$85,600.00 – $156,000.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
