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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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:\nLead, Quality Engineer\nWorking at Abbott\nAt 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:\nCareer development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.\nEmployees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.\nAn excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution\nTuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.\nA 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.\nA 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.\nThe Opportunity\nThis position will be based out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.\nAs the Lead Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for owning complex investigations associated with trends and emerging issues associated with product complaints, captured in the CAPA system. This role requires a strong technical understanding of the product, investigation methods, and can work closely cross-functionally to identify root cause of trends and emerging issues to ensure timely and effective investigations and corresponding corrective actions where applicable.\nWhat You’ll Work On\nIsolate root causes and implement effective solutions by means of sophisticated analysis and investigative techniques for product issues.\nResponsible for establishing ADC investigation and reporting methodology as pertaining to elevated complaints and field issues identified.\nCollaborate with Operations, R&D, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service to determine cross-functional evaluation, investigation, and solutions.\nRepresent Post-Market Surveillance and Product Quality Engineering in escalations and urgent issues being addressed at a cross-functional or divisional level.\nReviews and provides functional approval for project and quality system documentation.\nDevelops members of the team and implements process improvements within the Post-Market Surveillance team.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance or a related field required.\nAn equivalent combination of education and experience, including a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, will also be considered.\nDemonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills; critical-thinking skills, preferably in a CAPA environment.\nExperience working cross-functionally in an investigative role in a Quality management system.\nPreferred Qualifications\nQuality Assurance and healthcare industry disciplines preferred.\nMinimum 4 years overall quality experience in an FDA/ISO regulated environment preferred.\nApply Now\nLearn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:www.abbottbenefits.com\nFollow 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.\nConnect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on Twitter @AbbottNews.\nDivisional Information\nMedical Devices\nGeneral Medical Devices:\nOur 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.\nCRM\nAs a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.\nDiabetes\nWe’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.\nVascular\nAbbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.\nNeuromodulation\nOur Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.\nStructural Heart\nStructural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist\nOur business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.\nEP\nIn Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.\nHF\nIn Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.\nDiagnostics\nWe’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.\nOur Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.\nOur diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.\nOur rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.\nOur molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.\nNutrition\nOur nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. 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