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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

AVE YOU EVER DREAM OF MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD?

How? Become a Sr Manager Quality at Abbott CRM site in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Ensure that systems, processes, and staffing are suitably designed and implemented to maintain an effective/active quality system.

The Quality and Reliability Manager will work with their group to:

- Ensure product safety, reliability and quality through the effective use of quality planning, risk analysis, statistical methods and process controls during the design and manufacturing stages of the product.

- Ensure efficient compliance to all applicable regulations through the implementation of a robust quality system and through communication/reporting to regulatory authorities.

- Exceed customer expectations by responding to field events in a professional and timely manner.

- Minimize the number of field events through effective analysis of returned products, corrective actions and timely investigation and response to field events.

- Communications with regulatory authorities

- Reduce costs by employing Quality/Reliability System Processes that result in the development of efficient test and inspection plans, improved yields, and minimized scrap.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

• Provides direction and guidance to exempt engineers, specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.

• Identifies, develops and implements processes to improve department performance.

• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.

• Ensures sustaining support of Quality System and regulatory compliance by individually working on quality system issues and by delegating project work for maintaining and improving quality system capability.

• Provides guidance and direction to Quality Engineers in the analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of quality problems affecting the product or process.

• Creates immediate to long-range plans to carry out objectives established by top management

• Forecasts future departmental needs including human and material resources and capital expenditures

• Recommends the structure of organizational units or a centralized functional activity for department management review

• Develops and monitors area budgets through regular analysis of cost and spending

• Carries out operations within an established budget

CAN’T WAIT TO GET STARTED?

To be successful in this role, you will require the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering

• Minimum 9 years of experience