Quality Control Inspector IV - 2nd Shift

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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

The inspector provides an independent, unbiased evaluation of materials or the work of others. The results of the Inspector's evaluation are documented and communicated to organizational stakeholders with an interest in the evaluation's outcome - typically, this is supplier development and/ or manufacturing. The Inspector's approval certifies the work, or material meets the division's quality system requirements. Will provide technical assistance to support manufacturing efforts by implementing corrective and preventative actions

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Audits materials or the work of others through the examination, inspection, measurement, or test of raw materials, components, sub-assemblies, final assemblies and documentation.

• Documents the non-conformance or suspected non-conformance to standards (i.e. manufacturing documentation, material/ component specifications, operating procedures, and domestic/ international standards) through the identification of unsuccessful audits, the completion of required paperwork, system transactions, and affixing his or her mark (i.e. stamp, sign-off or signature).

• Handle discrepant materials per the documented disposition and document activities in the appropriate systems or paperwork.

• Communicates the status of audit metrics and other assignments, responsibilities, and duties verbally and through the completion and publishing of periodic reports.

• Performs simple statistical analysis through the collection and input of data into software applications or manual calculations.

• Trains new, entry level, and less experienced Quality Auditors through on-the-job training, group training, and one-on-one guidance.

• Issues, stores, count and maintains inventory into the different storage areas.

• Handles, disposes, transfer and document appropriately hazardous waste.

• Provides input to engineering during qualification, validation studies and reports by collecting, compiling, measuring, organizing, recording data by writing procedures.

• Develops and implements process improvements by assisting Engineering in researching and validating changes in processes/equipment and test methods to improve yield and/or reduce cycle time per established procedures. Works with engineering to identify probable root cause for manufacturing issues and may provide solutions.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma / GED

• 6 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Applies solid knowledge of business concepts, procedures and practices, and complete understanding fundamentals in a functional area, as well as knowledge of general technical concepts in relation to other related disciplines.

• Performs complex assignments usually without established procedures.

• Assignments require considerable judgment, initiative, creativity and leadership in troubleshooting, suggesting alternatives, and making recommendations for continuous quality improvement.

• Performs set-up, testing, and troubleshoots all area-specific equipment, materials, systems, and/or product.

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The base pay for this position is $18.25 – $36.55 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.