Associate Quality Engineer.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Primary Job Function Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.

Core Job Responsibilities

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

- Identifies and controls Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions. May be responsible for querying & bounding data to support implementation of complex & documenting release criteria.;
- Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product development team members. May be responsible for creating risk analyses and FMEAs.
- Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
- Leads process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
- Assists in creation of Quality Tools & Training Materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials, and by helping to identify more effective tools & materials.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree
- 0-3 years of related work experience
- Fully bilingual English-Spanish

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality

DIVISION:
AVD Vascular

LOCATION:
Costa Rica Alajuela : AVCR-1

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Cr09Sal (Costa Rica)

TRAVEL:
Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Yes

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Work in a clean room environment