**About Abbott**
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
**Working at Abbott**
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self, and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Private medical insurance, cafeteria subsidy, stock program, and employee association, among others
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
**The Opportunity**
This position works out of our Alajuela, Coyol location in the Vascular division that provides innovative, mínimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.
**What You'll Do**
- Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.
- Identify and address recurring problems either with the quality of the product or the reliability of testing procedures.
- Document quality issues and performance measures for management review.
- Interfaces primarily with internal company contacts and begins an extensive external network.
- Plans and conducts small
- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
- Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally.
- Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.
- Builds relationships. Initiates and cultivates open, honest relationships with colleagues, developing an understanding of others' needs.
- Identifies and Evaluates areas of risk with respect to compliance, Product/Mfg performance, Develops procedures, maintain FMEAs.
- Resolves problems, such as production process deviations, non-conformances (CAPA), field product performance, urgent out-of-stock replacements, and crisis situations requiring fast, astute decisions with rapid implementation by utilizing technical training and experience.
- May work in combination with SQE and Receiving Inspectors focused on driving improvements and CAPA in the quality of components sourced from outside suppliers.
- Provides technical support in the supplier corrective action, manufacturing yield and field failures.
**Shift: Admin (Monday - Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm)**
**On-Site position**
**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related STEM field
- 4 years of related experience
- _ Intermediate commands of English_
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Quality Background desired.
- FDA/ISO regulation knowledge.
- CQE / CQA / Lean/ Six Sigma certification is desired.
- Statistic's basic knowledge.
- Personal skills needed include Accountability, tact, open-mindedness, maturity, tenacity, decisiveness, nimble learning, Scientific thinking, Diligency, Resourcefulness, customer focus. Capable to persuade and motivate others to improve quality. Effective communication skills.
Follow 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.