IQA Technician

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.

IQA Technician

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And Your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
  
  

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Westfield, IN location in the Structural Heart Division.

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

As the IQA Technician, you’ll have the chance to provide technical assistance to engineering to support manufacturing efforts by implementing corrective and preventative actions. You'll assist engineers in developing methods and procedures to control or improve manufacturing processes.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Assists engineering in providing manufacturing support by learning to analyze data and identify manufacturing issues and trends.
• May also train operators on basic processes and engineering changes, and perform operator certification on-the-job training and testing.
• Assists in identifying Manufacturing issues by working with Engineering to determine root cause and implement corrective and preventative action.
• Works independently within the Quality System supporting CAPA, investigations, and RCA for identified nonconformances
• Learns process to disposition non-conforming material by utilizing quality tools and by developing knowledge of manufacturing practices and procedures.
• Helps to develop and implement process improvements by assisting Engineering in researching and validating changes in processes/equipment and test methods to improve yield and/or reduce cycle time per established procedures.
• Assists Engineering in supporting process development during new product introduction by providing input to traceability and inspection requirements, providing input for statistical process control criteria, developing manufacturing instructions, and creating training sheets and certifications.
• May also train operators on processes and engineering changes, and perform operator certification on-the-job training and testing.
• Assists Engineering with qualification and validation studies & reports by collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing and recording data, and by writing procedures.
• May keep lab notebook.
  
  

Shift

Monday through Friday, 1st shift: 6 am—2:30 pm or 2nd shift: 3 pm—11:30 pm. Occasional overtime is a requirement for this position.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or G.E.D
• 2 years of quality experience
• Ability to work independently
• MS office proficiency
• Experience working in medical device industry
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Working on implantable devices
  
  

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $18.65 – $37.35 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.