Supplier Development Quality Engineer II

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.

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.

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.

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.

Upholds Division approval requirements to supplier and monitors feedback per project timelines.  Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. Trains inspectors to these procedures. Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment. Generate test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products. Provide input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis.