Quality Operations Engineer – Shift Role

About the role

Abbott is seeking a Quality Operations Engineer to work on the Kilkenny site, supporting the production of FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and sensors. The role focuses on ensuring components, materials and processes meet the company’s quality standards and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Apply quality principles, analyse quality records and prepare improvement reports.
• Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components and materials used in development.
• Identify and address recurring product quality or testing reliability issues.
• Document quality issues and performance measures for management review.
• Monitor and maintain validation status of products, processes and systems, including FMEA and Critical Quality Attribute tracking.
• Maintain site validation plans, support equipment and software validation activities, and assist with process validation.
• Provide regular updates on project resource requirements and coordinate with other quality functions.
• Support implementation of actions to reduce non‑conformances in manufacturing and product testing.

Required profile

• Experience applying quality principles and conducting inspections, verifications and validations.
• Ability to analyse quality data, prepare reports and recommend improvements.
• Familiarity with validation documentation, process FMEA and Critical Quality Attributes.
• Capability to work with manufacturing, product test and incoming materials teams.

Required skills