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About this Supplier Quality Engineer III role at Abbott

Abbott · Onsite · Costa Rica - Alajuela

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.
  • 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 Alajuela location in the Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

As the Supplier Quality Engineer III, you’ll have the chance to drive improvement in the quality of components and services sourced from external suppliers. Provides technical support in the selection and evaluation of suppliers, monitors supplier performance to drive supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield issues and field failures. 

As required, supervises the activities, manpower and resources within the functional area to ensure support is provided to meet the department and company goals. 

What You’ll Do

  • Responsable for compliance with applicable Corporateand Divisional Policies and procedures.

    • Assesses potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities. 

      Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier. 

      Evaluates, monitor and approve new and existing external suppliers based in their qualifications and performance, acts as a spokesperson to external suppliers. 

      Analyzes incoming material defects and communicates issues to suppliers. Investigates failures related to supplier materials, dispositions, drives and tracks corrective/preventive action plans where necessary 

      Generates test protocols, monitors testing, issues material qualification test reports and approves components for use.  

      Assists in generating component specifications, generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures and provides input from component quality, inspectability and manufacturability perspective. Trains inspectors to these procedures as required. 

      Mentors employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.

      As required, supervise technical personal for task execution 

    Shift: Administrative

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Science, or equivalent field of study.
    • 2 of experience in engineering related position.
    • Intermediate command of English.

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    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

    N/A

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

         

    JOB FAMILY:

    Operations Quality

         

    DIVISION:

    AVD Vascular

            

    LOCATION:

    Costa Rica > Alajuela : AVCR-1

         

    ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

         

    WORK SHIFT:

    Cr09Sal (Costa Rica)

         

    TRAVEL:

    No

         

    MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

    No

         

    SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

    Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday), Work in a clean room environment

         

         

         

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    ​ Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, ent

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