Abbott · 4 days ago
Manager Site Quality Assurance
St Paul, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$99K/yr - $199K/yr
7+ years expAbbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Site Quality Assurance Manager will ensure that systems, processes, and staffing are designed to maintain an effective quality system, focusing on product safety, reliability, and quality throughout the design and manufacturing stages.
BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Reduce costs by employing Quality/Reliability System Processes that result in the development of efficient test and inspection plans, improved yields, and minimized scrap
Communications with regulatory authorities
Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent
Minimize the number of field events through effective analysis of returned products, corrective actions and timely investigation and response to field events
Ensure efficient compliance to all applicable regulations through the implementation of a robust quality system and through communication/reporting to regulatory authorities
Exceed customer expectations by ensuring excellent investigation to field events in a professional and timely manner
Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives
Creates an entrepreneurial environment
Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments
Supervise exempt and non-exempt employees
Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action
Demonstrates effective change leadership
Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives
Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills
Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.)
Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives
Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s)
Provides appropriate level of cross-functional and customer-oriented communications regarding the status of department and quality system operation, as well as product performance
Develops, communicates, and builds consensus for operating goals that are in alignment with the division
Provides leadership to assigned staff and supervisors by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving department objectives
Creates immediate to long-range plans to carry out objectives established by top management; develops and calculates a budget for a department or group to meet organizational goals; forecasts future departmental needs including human and material resources and capital expenditures; recommends or modifies the structure of organizational units or a centralized functional activity subject to senior management approval
Assignments are expressed in the form of objectives; makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve the program objectives established by senior management; consequences of erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally include critical delays and modifications to projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, human resources, and funds, and may jeopardize future business activity
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree in Chemistry, Biology, Engineering or other technical discipline
Minimum 7 years' related work experience
Preferred
Medical device industry experience, highly preferred
Benefits
Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with 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.
Company
Abbott
Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.79M2011-03-15Post Ipo Debt· $0.1M
2009-03-16Post Ipo Debt· $6.69M
1980-12-12IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Ford
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mike Peterson
Senior Vice President
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