New · posted Oct 29
Abbott · Medical Devices
Manager, Quality Assurance
- Temecula, CA
- On-site
- Full-time
- Manager
The role
Our location in Temecula, CA, currently has an opportunity for a Manager, Quality Assurance.
THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE.
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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
What you need
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING
- Bachelor's degree (preferably Engineering) and 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Advanced degree preferred.
- Promotes the attainment of group goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff.
- Provides leadership to assigned units by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving group objectives.
- Schedules human and material resources within a group or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability.
- Carries out operations within an established budget.
Decision Making/Impact:
Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks and objectives; Makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines regarding work processes or schedules in order to achieve the program objectives established by senior management; consequences of erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays to assigned projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, human resources, and funds, without jeopardizing future business activity.
Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills):
Monitors progress of exempt individuals, teams, supervisors or nonexempt technical individuals toward departmental goals; monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit; monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations
Cognitive Skills:
Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; facilitates others involvement in the continuous improvement program; investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and personnel within the assigned unit.
What you'll do
Leads the team of Quality engineers to support manufacturing. Directs projects to ensure the manufacture of high quality product and to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
- Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
- Monitors daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to, experienced exempt employees, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
- Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
- Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
- Contributes to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
- Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc).
- Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budgets through regular analysis of cost and spending.
- Translates department goals into individual objectives and KRAs.
- Identifies, develops and implements processes to improve department performance.
- Monitors departmental activities and records to ensure compliance independent action through critical decision making.
- Provides supplier development support by defining work assignments directed to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements utilizing Quality System tools.
- Implements improvements to Quality Systems and tools by directing personnel to gather data on existing quality tools, identify weaknesses, and research/select new tools based on findings.
- Ensures sustaining support of Quality System and regulatory compliance by individually working quality system issues and by delegating project work for maintaining quality system capability.
Pay and benefits
$99,300 – $198,700 a year
Employer providedThe base pay for this position is
$99,300.00 – $198,700.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Free medical coverage option through Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement
Freedom 2 Save student debt program
FreeU education benefit
Career development
Where you'll work
Temecula, CAOn-siteOpen in Maps (opens in a new tab)
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Standard
TRAVEL
Yes, 10 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE
No
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JOB FAMILY
Operations Quality
DIVISION
AVD Vascular
LOCATION
United States > Temecula : Building E - TE
From the posting
About Abbott
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
Equal opportunity, accessibility and legal noticesAbbott's statements, word for word
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · October 29, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 1% below the US median for Quality Assurance roles at this level.
This roleEmployer provided
Manager roles in California27 roles publishing pay
Manager roles in the US123 roles publishing pay
| Annual base pay | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| This role | $99,300 | — | $198,700 |
| California (middle half) | $156,750 | $165,500 | $181,000 |
| All US (middle half) | $129,000 | $150,000 | $166,000 |
This role: Abbott's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Quality Assurance roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, October 29, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Quality Assurance
The general path across 975 open Quality Assurance roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not Abbott's own promotion track.
Career resources on Quality Assurance
Skills DNA
What this role leans on
How many of the posting's 29 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Collaboration and leadership7
- Documentation and SOPs6
- GMP and compliance5
- Quality systems and risk5
- Investigations and CAPA1
- Data and digital systems1
Company hiring pulse
Abbott on Regulatory Jobs
- 90
- Open roles
- 83
- Distinct roles
- 31
- Locations
By discipline
- Quality60 67%
- Regulatory26 29%
- Compliance & Safety3 3%
By level
- Senior & Principal41 46%
- Associate & Specialist28 31%
- Manager17 19%
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Open until filled. $99K–$199K a year, employer provided.