**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.
**W**orking 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 will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the your dream career
- Medical insurance, employee association, free transportation, cafeteria subsidy and 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 diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
**The Opportunity**
This position works out of our Coyol, Alajuela location in the Vascular division.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, mínimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
Be a quality professional who applies compliance criteria, scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, statistical, and ingenuity to complete or lead assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.
Provide direction and leadership to Manufacturing Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality Improvement and Compliance culture.
**What You'll Do**
- Conduct verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.
- Identify and address recurring problems with the product's quality or the reliability of testing procedures.
- Document quality issues and performance metrics for review boards.
- Plans and conducts hihigh-levelssigned projects within quality specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
- Anticipates future directions.
Benchmarks internally and externally.
Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities.
- Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis.
Reports findings.
Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.
- Predicts patterns/trends.
Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations.
- Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
- Identifies and evaluates risk areas with respect to compliance, Product/Mfg performance, develops procedures, and maintains FMEAs.
- Resolves problems and provide guidance, 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.
**Required **Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree: Engineering, science or closely D related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical.
Experience/Background:
- 5 years.
Of experience in medical device or related industries.
- Fully Bilingual (English and Spanish) I Required
Preferred Qualifications & Education
- Quality Background.
- FDA/ISO regulation knowledge.
- CQE / CQA / Lean/ Six Sigma certification is desired.
- Statistic's knowledge.
- Personal skills needed include Leadership, accountability, tact, open-mindedness, maturity, tenacity, decisiveness, self/reliance, scientific thinking, Diligency, Resourcefulness, customer focus.
Capable to persuade and motivate others to improve quality.
Effective communication skills.
Leadership 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.