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. **Associate Quality Engineer** **About Abbott** Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. **Working at Abbott** At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to: + Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. + Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days. + A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. **The Opportunity** This position works out of our Barceloneta location in the Vascular Division at Second Shift. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. **What You’ll Do** + Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. + 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 preventive actions. + Works with line support team (QC Supervisor, Mfg Supervisor, Quality Engineer and Operations) to perform line situation triage and determine if non-conformance is present, determine initial bracketing and containment, and initiate exception management process. + Owns basic exception / CAPA activities with management oversight. + May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria. + Responsible for lot-to-lot yield and rework evaluation. + Gains understanding of product quality plans, documents, and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems. + Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members. + May be responsible for providing input to 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. + Assist Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g). scrap, nonconforming product, customer complains) by systematically gathering quality metric data and by assisting in the appropriated analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design. + Runs routine problem-solving investigation with direction and use of basic engineering principles. + Implements minor changes through change management system and may support major change implementation. + May write protocols and reports with management oversight to support engineering studies and validations. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in engineering. + Zero (0)-Two (2) years- of 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. + Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. + Works on problems of limited scope. + Ability to effectively communicate cross-functionally to assist with resolving Quality/Engineering issues. + Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills in both English and Spanish. + Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees. + Knowledge of common office applications: Word, PowerPoint, excel. Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/) 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 and @AbbottGlobal. The base pay for this position is $44,700.00 – $89,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com