Manager Quality Engineering

Manager Quality Engineering. This position will support the Structural Heart business and will be based in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

On-site position.

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.

• Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days.

• 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 will provide support to our Medical Devices / Structural Heart business. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. 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 Manager Quality Engineering will be responsible for planning, implementation and control of quality control procedures to support the actual company QA system and to facilitate technology transfer to the site. This position will proactively lead and coach QE resources and SE (supplier engineer), actively participate in site activities as part of the Quality Management Team and lead the Quality/Supplier Engineering organization by envisioning short and long-term goals, overcoming intra-facility barriers to success, and energizing the facility to become a quality driven organization.

What You’ll Do

• Supervises the QE staff to ensure adherence to facility QE systems.

• Responsible for providing functional guidance to technical staff within the Quality Department and for their development: critiques, instructs, mentors, evaluates and coaches. 

• Recommends and implements modifications to improve QA system efficiency and develops new analytical methods and techniques.

• Assist quality improvement team members by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources to teams as needed.

• This responsibility includes driving improvements in key quality indicators/systems such as yields, quality incidents/escapes, and complaints/FER. 

•  Responsible for process validation from the quality perspective and quality compliance for all products produced in the SH facility. 

• Coordinates investigation, reporting and implementation of required corrective and preventive actions in any documentation, inspection and release functions nonconformance.

• In conjunction with operations and engineering personnel, establishes requirements for the transfer of technology/methodology facility. 

•  Ensure compliance with all SJM procedures and all applicable regulatory agency requirements. Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering.

• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in Quality, Materials, and/or Operations Management. At least 4 years of supervisory or managerial experience, demonstrating leadership and team management capabilities. 

• Experience within the medical device, pharmaceutical, biomedical, or electronics industry is preferred.

• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills in Spanish and English.

• Digital skills, Microsoft office.

Preferred qualifications:

​Professional certification in Lean and/or Six Sigma is a plus.