Senior Engineer Supplier Quality

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. ## **JOB DESCRIPTION:** **Job Title** **Sr. Engineer Supplier Quality** **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 of which you dream. - 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](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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** We are seeking a high caliber Senior Engineer Supplier Quality. This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the AVD Vascular division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. The Senior Engineer Supplier Quality 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. **What You’ll Work On** - Assess potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities. - Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier. - Generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures. - Trains inspectors to these procedures. - Develops and/or sources inspection tools and equipment. - Assists in generating component specifications. - Generates test protocols, monitor testing, issue qualification test reports and approve components for use in products. - Provides input to Design Engineering on new component technology and assist in component selection with quality and reliability analysis. - Analyzes incoming material defects. - Dispositions and drives corrective action as necessary. - Communicates issues to suppliers. - Reviews new design specifications and provides input from component quality and manufacturability perspective. - Investigates field failures related to supplier materials. - Develop corrective action plan where necessary. - May supervise inspectors. **Education And Experience You’ll Bring** - Bachelors Degree Related field OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Master's Degree Preferred - Minimum 6 years related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area. - Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures. - Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships. - Will perform this job in a quality system environment. - Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations. - Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. - Exe…