Engineer II, Product Analysis

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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'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 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 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 Menlo Park, CA location in the Structural Heart division. 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.

As the Product Analysis Engineer II, you'll provide quality engineering support to manufacturing, and failure analysis on biomedical implant product helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.

What You'll Work On

• Perform failure analysis on returned biomedical product.
• Work requires the application of theoretical principals, evaluation, ingenuity, and creative/analytical techniques to identify route cause failure mechanisms.
• Must be able to meet deadlines on multiple assignments and be able to operate in a diverse cross-functional team environment.
• Proactive in finding quality improvements related to Failure Analysis
• May serve as lead and assign work to less experienced personnel and serves as a mentor when assisting less experienced staff in solving more complex problems.
• Works cross functionally and collaboratively with Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Surveillance.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• 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 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.
• Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
• 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.
• (Influence/Leadership):
  • Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
  • 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):
  • May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval.
• Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in a related or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 3 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.

Apply Now

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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.

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality

DIVISION:
SH Structural Heart

LOCATION:
United States > Menlo Park : 3885 Bohannon Drive

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

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