Operations Quality Engineer Shift

4 weeks ago


Kilkenny, Ireland Abbott Full time

At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs over 5,000 people across nine sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Diabetes Care Kilkenny

Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, opening in 2024, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies, including the FreeStyle Libre 3, a system that automatically delivers real-time, up-to-the-minute glucose readings, with the smallest and thinnest wearable glucose sensor that provides unsurpassed 14-day accuracy and optional glucose alarms directly to smartphones. This enables people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can.

At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare. 

This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:

As an Operations Quality Engineer you will Analyse quality standards for components, materials or services. Apply measures, sampling methods, testing methodology and other procedures that ensure that quality standards are met. Provide Quality expertise and guidance to Manufacturing/Operations, Technical/Product Test and Incoming Materials to support the manufacture and delivery of quality and compliant products on time, in full and cost effectively to meet the needs of the business and customers.

This is a shift based role on 4 cycle shift.
 

Key Responsibilities

Spearhead development and maintenance of Quality System procedures.

Ensuring the site delivers safe and effective products that meet customer needs whilst maintaining compliance.

Monitor and maintain the quality and compliance status of associated quality records.

Responsible for identifying and raising Quality / Compliance issues, reviewing Exception Reports (ERs) and confirming Corrections and Corrective Actions.

Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends potential issues, improvement initiatives, as applicable.

Identify and raise Quality / Compliance issues, reviewing Exception Reports (ERs) and confirming Corrections and Corrective Actions.

Ensure audit readiness in functional area.

Identify projects to enhance and promote the effectiveness and efficiency of the quality system and product quality.

Support Operations to make Quality / Compliance decisions on product during processing, manufacturing, testing, monitoring and packaging.

Coach and develop junior technicians and engineers.

Process SME in multiple quality systems.

Supervising and owning UPE events.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum NFQ Level 7 Qualification in Engineering or Manufacturing qualification

Minimum 4 years in a Manufacturing / Science or Engineering environment

GMP/GDP experience

ISO 13485 experience

Yellow belt qualification desired.

Process Subject Matter Expert in parts of the quality system

What we Offer

Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as

Family health insurance,

Excellent pension scheme

Life assurance

Career Development

Fantastic new facility

Growing business plus access to many more benefits.

Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.



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