Product Analysis Engineer II en Abbott

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 St. Paul, MN location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

In this role you will perform failure analysis on explanted biomedical implant product. Provide technical expertise to the Product Analysis Laboratory. Analyzes failures, develops and implements investigative protocols to identify root causes, performs circuit analysis, performs device and component level failure analysis.

What You’ll Work On

•Perform failure analysis on explanted long term biomedical implant product.

•Work requires the application of theoretical principals, evaluation, ingenuity, and creative/analytical techniques to identify route cause failure mechanisms.

•Must be able to meet deadlines on multiple assignments and be able to operate in a diverse cross-functional team environment.

•Proactive in finding quality improvements related to Failure Analysis

•May serve as lead and assign work to less experienced personnel and serves as a mentor when assisting less experienced lab staff in solving more complex problems.

•Works cross functionally and collaboratively with Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Surveillance.

•Aides in definition of test equipment as required to accomplish quality responsibilities.

•Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

•Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.

•Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline  

• 3 + years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in performing failure analysis

• Ability to meet deadlines on multiple projects as well as the ability to converse effectively with all levels of employees

• Advanced personal computer skills including spreadsheet, word processing database management, and specialized applications

• Medical Device industry

• Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM)

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