Position: Principal Quality Engineer, Tracking and Trending
Location: Alameda, CA – Diabetes Care division
What You’ll Work On
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
- Proactively utilize technical depth to understand complaints and work to improve products/process to better meet customer needs with reduced issues.
- Provides guidance with respect to applicable complaint trend investigation processes, and ensures compliance with regulations with respect to investigations.
- Translates business strategy into meaningful objectives and day‑to‑day activities required to accomplish them.
- Anticipates future direction and adjusts current processes accordingly.
- Effectively communicates directional changes and creates support for changes.
- Be the technical lead for complaint investigations, and be liaison to other functions, such as R&D, Operations, and other Quality functions.
- Ensure investigation results are disseminated to the relevant SMEs appropriately.
- Structures studies and integrates cross‑disciplinary and cross‑functional issues to arrive at optimal cause of action, e.g. investigates process to meet increasing regulatory requirements.
- Follows through on project goals; contributes willingly and incorporates the ideas of others; shares resources, knowledge and accountability to benefit the objectives of the business, e.g. participates in team meetings; serves either as functional subject matter expert or independent technical expert in management reviews.
- Strong project management skills and able to multi‑task and set priorities to meet overall business objectives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (Math, Science, or Engineering disciplines preferred) or equivalent in a technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 5 years of overall quality experience in an FDA/ISO regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience in leading teams, organizing and managing projects and developing/coaching/guiding team members (either direct and indirect reports).
- Working knowledge of SQL, Python, PowerBI.
Preferred Qualifications
- Must be able to analyze data and assist in interpreting the data.
- Develop and implement investigation process improvements.
The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 – $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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