Sr. Specialist Quality Assurance

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Sr. Specialist Quality Assurance

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

The primary function of a Sr. Specialist Quality Assurance is to serve as a facilitator to identify, review and assess the impact of world wide product manufacturing, quality, regulatory or safety issues that arise in complaint investigations, manufacturing deviations, trend analysis or other non-conformities related to products sold by Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC).

What You’ll Work On

• Reviewing customer complaints, exception reports, technical investigations, manufacturing deviations and regulatory requirements against existing historical analysis to identify new issues.
• Facilitate cross functional meetings to make recommendations on the need for product controls and or risk evaluations.
• Initiating and facilitating product control processes and documentation.
• Drafting, reviewing, and issuing stop shipments, quality holds, and dispositions in alignment with the exception report processes as applicable.
• Initiating and facilitating the risk evaluation processes.
• Drafting, reviewing, and closing risk evaluations with inputs from cross functional teams.
• Preparing and participating or facilitating in regular meetings with Senior Level management.
• Coordinating slides, meeting minutes, and action items.
• Participate in design reviews as required providing technical inputs and historical information for product controls.
• Draft, review and implement process improvements through procedures and work instructions.
• Collate and interpret team metrics.
• Compile, manipulate, and draft presentable team data for Post-Market Surveillance reviews.
• May support the coordination and execution field actions as they arise, including assisting with progressing associated documentation.
• Collate Quality Hold data for product accountability.
• Provides direction to junior staff on daily activities.
• Provides recommendations for product control and risk evaluations.
• Escalate issues to Management and serve as delegate for management as appropriate in audit settings.
• Communicate directly to Customer Service, Sales and Marketing, and other affected areas of the business for new issues as well as product releases.
• Responsible for adhering to quality policies.
• Maintaining original files in PQA archival system.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 6 yrs of relevant work experience (Risk Management, Technical Writing and/or Post Market Surveillance activities) or equivalent education and work experience will be accepted.
• Minimum 3 yrs at a Senior Specialist level required.
• Prior experience in the medical device industry and or quality systems are required.
• Strong working knowledge of FDA Code of Federal Regulations as it applies to medical device manufacturing, including cGMP, ISO14971, as well as complaint handling systems.
• Proven track record of managing projects from initiation to completion in a timely manner. 
• Strong technical writing skills and excellent oral and written communication skills

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

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 finger sticks.

Diabetes

We’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.

The base pay for this position is

$98,000.00 – $196,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:Operations Quality

DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 2601 Harbor Bay Parkway

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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