47 Quality Control Inspector jobs in Ireland
Manufacturing Engineer/Quality Engineer

Posted 28 days ago
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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 6,000 people across ten 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.
**Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development, and advancing medicine through training and education. Our broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries, and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia, and other serious vascular conditions.
**We are currently looking for Manufacturing Engineers and Quality Engineers to join our modern site in Clonmel.**
**This is how you will make a difference:**
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for engineering support of manufacturing operations, which will involve key engineering metric management and process optimization activities including Manufacturing Yield improvement, product quality monitoring, lean manufacturing design and material/equipment/process troubleshooting using continuous improvement tools and methodology. Working as part of the operations support team, the manufacturing engineer will liaise with operations, quality, R&D and materials & purchasing departments to ensure quality and efficient manufacturing operations.
**Main responsibilities**
+ Initiates and completes technical activities leading to new or improved products or process, for current programs, next generation programs and to meet strategic goals and objectives of the company.
+ Prepares reports, publishes, and makes presentations to communicate findings.
+ Analyses and solves problems from basic engineering principles, theories and concepts through to a wide range of complex and advanced problems which require novel and new innovative approaches or a major breakthrough in technology.
+ Understands engineering principles theories, concepts, practices and techniques.
+ Understands the business needs of the company, and has knowledge of the customer needs of our business.
+ Understands the business cycle and foresight of emerging technologies trends.
+ Cultivates internal and external network of resources to complete tasks. Serves as a resource in the selection orientation and training of new engineers and employees.
+ May lead a project team, determining goals and objectives for the projects.
+ Mentors employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
+ Interacts cross functionally and with internal and external customers.
+ Serves as a consultant for engineering or scientific interpretations and advice on significant matters.
+ Acts as a spokesperson to customers on business unit current and future capabilities.
+ Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
**Experience, Education and Skills Required - Manufacturing Engineer:**
+ National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline.2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures. Limited understanding of business unit/group function.
+ Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems.
+ Developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
**JOB DESCRIPTION:**
**About Abbott**
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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.
Our broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.
**Purpose Statement:**
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.
Shift Role: 2-cycle shift (8-16:30 and 16:30-00:30)
**Key Responsibilities - Quality Engineer:**
1. Identifies manufacturing process defects (scrap, non-conforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, identifying primary root causes and suggesting corrective and preventative actions. May be responsible for querying and bounding data to support implementation of basic product stops.
2. Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) in conjunction with other product development team members. May be responsible for providing input to risk analyses and Failure Mode Effect Analysis' (FMEAs).
3. Becomes skilled at using process monitoring systems by starting to identify critical process steps and applying basic methods to reduce process variation to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
4. Assists product/process improvement efforts (example, scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data based on previous program templates and by assisting in the appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
5. Becomes skilled at using quality tools and training materials by working with existing quality tools and training materials and by understanding evolution/history of tools in use.
6. Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
7. Participates in corrective and preventive action activity.
8. Participates in Field Discrepancy Notification (FDN) investigations.
**Education & Job Skills - Quality Engineer**
+ (Education/ Experience) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline. 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures. General understanding of business unit/group function. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
+ (Cognitive Skills) Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
+ (Influence/Leadership) Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. May lead a project team of moderate scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
+ (Planning/Organisation) Plans, organises, and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
+ (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
+ (Supervision Provided) May provide limited work direction and guidance to exempt and/or skilled nonexempt levels of employees, may be asked to evaluate performance of and assist in career development planning for subordinates.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
Quality/manufacturing engineer
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Quality Technician/Manufacturing Technician

Posted 28 days ago
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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 115,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott Ireland**
In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten 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.
**Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular Clonmel is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education. Our broad line of vascular devices Manufactured in Clonmel includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-These devices are designed to treat heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.
Abbott Vascular Clonmel is the largest Abbott Manufacturing facility in Ireland focusing on both manufacturing and research and development of next generation vascular products.
**We are currently on the look out for both Manufacturing Technicians and Quality Technicians.**
**As the Quality Technician, you will:**
+ Assist engineering in providing manufacturing support by reviewing and analysing data to determine manufacturing issues and trends. You may also train operators on processes and engineering changes, and perform operator certification on-the-job training and testing.
+ Resolve and prevent manufacturing issues by assisting engineering in determining root cause and implementing corrective and preventative action.
+ Review and disposition non-conforming material by utilising quality tools and by developing knowledge of manufacturing practices and procedures.
+ Develop 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.
+ Support process development during new product introduction by defining traceability and inspection requirements, developing statistical process control criteria, developing manufacturing instructions, and creating training sheets and certifications.
+ Provide input to engineering, qualification, and validation studies and reports by collecting, compiling, measuring, organising and recording data, and by writing procedures. May keep lab notebook.
**EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES - QUALITY TECHNICIAN:**
+ (Education/ Experience) National Framework of Qualifications level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline and 4+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Applies extensive knowledge of advanced technical concepts and practices, and a complete understanding of product or systems fundamentals in a functional area, and working knowledge of other related disciplines. Utilises/interprets advanced numerical and statistical data and computer software programs to present documentation and analysis and resolve complex problems. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
+ (Cognitive Skills) Performs complex technical assignments usually without established procedures. Assists in the design, development, evaluation or modification of all area-specific equipment, materials, systems, and/or product. May determine types of tests or develop preventative maintenance plans. Assignments require considerable judgment, initiative, creativity and leadership in troubleshooting, suggesting alternatives, and making recommendations for continuous quality improvement methods.
+ (Influence/Leadership) Mentor less senior employees in work group and offer counsel. Leads cross functional teams to resolve technical issues as required. Establishes effective channels of communication cross shift, site and functional groups.
+ (Planning/Organisation) Plans and organises non-routine tasks with approval. Initiates or maintains work schedule. Establishes priorities of work assignments.
+ (Decision Making/Impact) Solves a wide range of complex problems requiring advanced interpretation of generally defined procedures and practices. Selects methods and practices to obtain imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions to questions. Understands organisational structure and positions of key employees. Maintains general knowledge of products/services associated with the company and employees involved with specific product lines and services. Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information or documents.
+ (Communication) Regularly presents findings to cross-functional teams and begins to win support for ideas. Can adequately write procedures and product disposition documentation that may be presented to external auditing bodies.
+ (Supervision Received) Limited supervision. Receives no instruction on routine work and general instruction on new lines of work or special assignments.
**As the Manufacturing Technician, you will:**
+ Observe and comply with all safety rules and regulations. This includes Quality Systems Registrars (QSR) and International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Standards.
+ Identify and implement corrective actions for manufacturing related issues.
+ Performs equipment setup and corrective, preventive and calibration maintenance as necessary.
+ Install and validate equipment and processes in the production area to improve yield and/or reduce cycle time following the established validation procedure.
+ Evaluate operating data to conduct on-line adjustments to products, instruments, or equipment. May develop or revise documents and procedures.
+ Certify manufacturing associates in the production processes.
+ Evaluate and order necessary equipment, tools and fixtures.
**EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES - MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN:**
+ (Experience/Education) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline. Relevant work experience advantageous but not essential or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Applies limited knowledge of basic technical concepts and practices and a basic understanding of product or systems fundamentals. Utilises basic knowledge of numerical and/or statistical data and computer software programs to resolve routine problems. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
+ (Cognitive Skills) Performs routine technical tasks working from detailed written or verbal instructions. Performs routine set-up, testing, repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of certain area-specific equipment, materials, systems, and/or product. Assignments require limited judgment in troubleshooting proven processes.
+ (Planning/Organisation) Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritisation of tasks.
+ (Decision Making/Impact) Solves problems of limited scope and complexity requiring basic interpretation of well-defined procedures and practices. Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information or documents.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
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Quality Assurance & Engineering
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Overview: We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities. Our team within Client's The Services team is a key differentiator for Client's, providing the cutting-edge services that are used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions and grow their businesses. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. Advanced Analytics Program: Within the Services Technology Team, the Targeting Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Client's products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes. We are looking for an innovative software quality engineer who can design and execute test plans for key full-stack features and our data pipeline and thrive in a fast-paced, agile team. The range of work you encounter varies from writing automated tests to ensuring analytical accuracy and beyond. This individual will be part of a large, cross-functional team and collaborate closely with our Customer Experience, Product Development, and Engineering teams. Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects. Here are a few examples of products in our space: • Portfolio Optimizer (PO) is a solution that leverages Client's data assets and analytics to allow issuers to identify and increase revenue opportunities within their credit and debit portfolios. • Audiences uses anonymized and aggregated transaction insights to offer targeting segments that have high likelihood to make purchases within a category to allow for more effective campaign planning and activation. • Credit Risk products are a new suite of APIs and tooling to provide lenders real-time access to KPIs and insights serving thousands of clients to make smarter risk decisions using Client's data.
RequirementsRole: o Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products. o Drive Quality Engineering methodologies and help build high quality software. o Create, manage and maintain test cases, and test data. o Develop and execute a) functional/integration tests, b) data quality tests, c) automated tests, and d) performance tests for APIs and web apps, o Collaborate closely with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes. o Partner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes. o Help make Quality an integral part of the development process. All About You: o 3+ years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Test Automation engineer, Developer or related occupation, leveraging software QA tools and processes. o Experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI testing, Automated testing, Test driven development strategies etc. o Must be experienced with testing data intensive applications and data quality testing o Must have strong expertise of using Selenium Web Driver (Java 8) for automated GUI testing. o Expertise in using Postman/SOAPUI/Blazemeter Pro for automated API testing and creating automated regression packs. o Proven experience (recent) working in a continuous integration environment with hands on experience of configuration of Jenkins builds and executing tests using Jenkins. o Full understanding of test and project delivery life cycles. o Ability to analyze application logs and assist engineers by utilizing basic debugging techniques o Have experience with defect/requirements management tools. o Have hands on experience working with version control tools such as Subversion and GIT. o Excellent communication skills,Quality Assurance Technician, Intermediate
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Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products, including diagnostics, medical devices, and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites. We have seven manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Kilkenny, Longford, and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations, and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.
**Abbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.
Our broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.
**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**
Provides technical assistance to engineering to support
manufacturing efforts by implementing corrective and preventative actions. Assists engineers in developing methods and procedures to control or improve manufacturing processes.
**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Assists engineering in providing manufacturing support bylearning to analyse data and identify manufacturing issues and trends. May also train operators on basic processes and engineering changes, and perform operator certification on-the- job training and testing.
+ Assists in identifying manufacturing issues by working withengineering to determine root cause and implementcorrectiveand preventative action.
+ Learns process to disposition non-conforming material byutilising quality tools and by developing knowledge of manufacturing practices andprocedures.
+ Helps to develop and implement process improvements byassisting engineering in researching and validating changes in processes/equipmentandtestmethodstoimproveyieldand/orreduce cycle time per established procedures.
+ Assists engineering in supporting process development duringnewproductintroductionbyprovidinginputtotraceabilityandinspectionrequirements,providinginputforstatisticalprocess control criteria, developing manufacturing instructions, and creating training sheets and certifications.
+ Assists engineering with qualification and validation studies andreports by collecting, compiling, meassuring, organising andrecording data, and by writing procedures. May keeplab notebook.
**EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES**
+ National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline. 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalentcombination of education and work experience.
+ Applies broad knowledge of general technical concepts and practices and a general understanding of product or systems fundamentals. Utilises increased knowledge of numerical and statistical data and computer software programs to resolve nonroutine/moderately complex problems. Will perform this job in aquality system environment. Failure to adequately perform taskscan result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
+ Performs non-routine to moderately complextechnical assignments using standard methods and sequences.Performs set-up, testing, repair, inspection, and/or maintenanceof al I area-specific equipment, materials, systems, and/orproduct. Makes adjustments, modifications, and replacementsas directed. Assignments require broad judgment introubleshooting proven processes as well as the ability to suggestalternatives.
+ Regularly presents findings to cross-functional teams and begins to win support for ideas. Can adequately write procedures and product disposition documentation that may be presented to external auditing bodies.
+ Mentors new team members. Ensures open communication within group and across shift and relevant functions to resolve technical issues and promote learning.
+ Plans, organises, and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
+ Solves a variety of problems of limited to moderate scope and complexity requiring basic interpretation of defined procedures and practices. Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information or documents.
+ General supervision. Receives general instruction on routine work and detailed instruction on new assignments.
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**Abbott Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer**
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An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email