Quality Engineer

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of medical devices and/or device components of combination products by providing support on applicable design control, human factors/usability engineering, and risk management processes.
• Support implementation of assurances, process controls, and Corrective Actions/Preventative Action (CAPA) systems designed to meet or exceed internal and external requirements.
• Lead product risk assessment efforts, including development of quality plans for risk analysis, development of risk controls, implementation and verification of effectiveness, as well as lifecycle risk management planning.
• Develop control plans, SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures), test methods, quality alerts, non-conformance trends, and monthly quality performance reports.
• Represent the Quality function on product and process development project teams.
• Conduct Design of Experiments (DOE) and Process Characterization for process optimization and/or improvement by conducting analyses using statistical techniques, including Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility (Gage R&R), Tolerance intervals, and Process Capability assessments.
• Actively support and engage in design reviews.
• Lead or support design activities including design verification, validation, specification setting and justification, test method development, usability engineering, and risk management.
• Work with design engineering in the completion of product verification and validation, including Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), Performance Qualification (PQ), and Process Performance Qualification (PPQ).
• Evaluate protocols and reports to ensure that the testing is sufficient to meet regulatory requirements and quality objectives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments, particularly FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971.

Must possess a Bachelor’s degree or foreign academic equivalent in Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or a highly related mathematics/engineering field of study with one (1) year of related experience in the following:

1. conducting analyses using statistical techniques, including Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility, Tolerance intervals, and Process Capability assessments;
2. Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, Performance Qualification, and Process Performance Qualification;
3. supporting implementation of assurances, process controls, and Corrective Actions/Preventative Action systems; and
4. conducting analyses using statistical techniques, including Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility, Tolerance intervals, and Process Capability assessments

Salary Range: $104,728 - $118,500 per year.

Apply online at https://careers.abbvie.com/en. Refer to Req ID: REF24418W. 

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.  This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs.

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