**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 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 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**
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures
- Assesses potential new suppliers for technical, quality and manufacturing capabilities. Provides technical support for the introduction of components from a new supplier. Evaluates, monitors and approve new and existing external suppliers based in their qualifications and performance, acts as a spokesperson to external suppliers.
- Analyzes incoming material defects and communicates issues to suppliers. Investigate failures related to supplier materials, and dispositions, drives and tracks corrective/preventive action plans where necessary
- Generates test protocols, monitors testing, issues material qualification test reports and approves components for use.
- Assists in generating component specifications, generates and maintains incoming inspection procedures and provides input from component quality, inspectability and manufacturability perspectives. Trains inspectors to these procedures as required.
- Mentors employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance. As required, supervise technical personnel for task execution
- Responsible for meeting daily goals; proactively seek ways to support the customer (i.e., working with engineering to find alternative resolutions to issues, while maintaining compliance, without stopping production)
- (As required) Supervise, train, and develop nonexempt personnel, and implement a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements. Develop goals/objectives for all assigned personnel; monitor employees' performance against goals, provide performance feedback; write and conduct development plans/performance appraisals; manage employee HR issues. Manage and assign resources to address business needs, including staffing levels, overtime needs and project support
- Understands engineering principles theories, concepts, practices and techniques. Develops knowledge in a field to become a recognized leader or authority in an area of specialization and applies this knowledge in leadership roles in the company
**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
- Advance level of English
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.