Design 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Design Quality Engineer

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
This position works out of our Dallas, TX location in the Transfusion Medicine, Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

As the Design Quality Engineer, you will be a member of the cross functional team for Hardware that identifies, implements, and verifies changes to the design of Abbott products.  Familiarity with design inputs, engineering drawings and specifications, risk management, verification, validation, and design output and transfer required. Conduct quality-related activities to deliver consistent, high-quality documents, services, products, and processes, which adds value to the business.

What You’ll Work On

• Contributes to defining and timely achievement of overall project goals.

• Provides compliant solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Interacts constructively with employees, managers and cross-functional peers.

• May lead a project with a limited scope, but usually a contributor on broader projects.

• Provides guidance to other Professionals and Technicians.

• Scope typically limited to one specific QA function.

• Quality System Compliance -Maintains awareness of standards that regulate our industry.

• Ensures compliance to site level policies and procedures by promptly reporting non-compliance issues to management within Division and Corporation as appropriate.

• Maintains vigilance to ensure adherence to Quality Policy and Quality system procedures by promptly reporting noncompliance issues to management.

• Risk Management - Applies basic Risk Management principles to work.

• Participates in the development or modification of Risk management files.

• Provides compliant solutions to a variety of complex problems.

• Ensures compliant documentation related to area of responsibility.

• Design Control / Documentation & Change Control - Identifies areas for process improvement.

• Provides supporting information for change including reasons and justifications.

Required Qualifications

• Apprenticeship or Bachelor’s degree in Life Science, Engineering, or closely related discipline is required; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.  

• At least 3 years work experience in Quality or related field experience; Less experience may be appropriate with advanced degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hardware Quality Engineering experience strongly preferred.

• Diagnostics or Medical device experience preferred. 

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://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.

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The base pay for this position is

$68,000.00 – $136,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Operations Quality

     

DIVISION:

TM Transfusion Medicine

        

LOCATION:

United States > Irving : LC-02

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Lift, carry, push or pull weights of more than 20 pounds/9 kilos on a regular/daily basis

     

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

     

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