Title: Quality Engineer II
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Duration: 12 Months
Shift Time: 6 AM -4 PM
Overview
Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist Our business 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 requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.
Responsibility:
- Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.
- Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventative actions.
- May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
- Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.
- Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps. and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation.
- Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.
- Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
- Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
- May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.
- Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.
- Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventative actions.
- May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
- Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.
- May be responsible for learning risk analyses and FMEAs.
- Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps. and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation.
- Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.
- (Influence/Leadership): Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks. o Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
- (Planning/Organization): Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
- (Decision Making/Impact): o May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.
- Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.
Education & Qualification
- Bachelors Degree in a related or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 2- 5 years related work experience with a basic understanding of specified functional area.
- Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures.
- Limited 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.
- Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. Works on problems of limited scope. 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