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Quality Assurance Engineer, Intermediate, South Tipperary
Client:
Abbott
Location:
South Tipperary
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
b538b9671cda
Job Views:
5
Posted:
04.03.2025
Expiry Date:
18.04.2025
Job Description:
Abbott in Ireland
Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products, including diagnostics, medical devices, and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites. We have seven manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Kilkenny, Longford, and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations, and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.
Abbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.
Our broad line of vascular devices–which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing and projects helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Identifies manufacturing process defects (scrap, non-conforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, identifying primary root causes and suggesting corrective and preventative actions.
2. Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) in conjunction with other product development team members.
3. Becomes skilled at using process monitoring systems by identifying critical process steps and applying basic methods to reduce process variation to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
4. Assists product/process improvement efforts by systematically gathering quality metric data based on previous program templates and by assisting in the appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
5. Becomes skilled at using quality tools and training materials by working with existing quality tools and training materials and by understanding the evolution/history of tools in use.
6. Participates in validation activity, providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
7. Participates in corrective and preventive action activity.
8. Participates in Field Discrepancy Notification (FDN) investigations.
EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES
National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline. 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures. General 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.
Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. May lead a project team of moderate scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors.
Plans, organises, and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
Works with general supervision. Trains new Quality Engineers. May provide limited work direction and guidance to exempt and/or skilled nonexempt levels of employees, may be asked to evaluate performance of and assist in career development planning for subordinates.
REFER TO THE SITE SAFETY STATEMENT (SHE038447) FOR YOUR SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE AT WORK RESPONSIBILITIES
Abbott Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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