Supplier Development Quality Engineer ll

Company: Abbott Laboratories
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: May 28, 2025

Job Description:

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.Working at AbbottAt 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 forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program, and 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 OpportunityThis position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott's Heart Failure (HF) business, we're developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.The Supplier Development Quality Engineer II position 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
  • UpholdsDivisionapprovalrequirementstosupplierandmonitorsfeedbackperprojecttimelines.
  • Analyzes incoming material defects.
  • Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures.
  • Owner of Non-Conforming MaterialReports(NCMRs)issuedto supplier for nonconformingsuppliedmaterialandworkswiththesupplierontheinvestigationandrootcauseanalysis.
  • 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 forsupplierrequestedchangesorimprovements.
  • Notifiessuppliersofcustomercomplaintsrelatedtofailuresresultingfromsuppliedmaterialandrequiresinvestigationandcorrectiveaction.
  • 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.Required Qualifications
    • Bachelor's Degreeoran 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 DegreeLearn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: 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 , on Facebook at , and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
        
        The base pay for this position is $79,500.00 - $138,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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