
Senior QMS & Compliance Specialist
Sylmar, CAJob$90–180K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Abbott’s Senior QMS & Compliance Specialist is an onsite, first-level manager role based in Sylmar, California. The position leads and supervises a team of at least two professionals, with a focus on mentoring, coaching, and coordination. It oversees controlled documentation and records processes, regulatory compliance, documentation changes and standards, and may support regulatory dossier assembly and information analysis.
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Full job description
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.
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:
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Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
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An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
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Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
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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.
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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.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
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This is an ONSITE role based out of Sylmar, CA
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Leads/supervises a team of 2 or more professionals.
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First level manager of a work team that could comprise professionals, technical and/or administrative staff.
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Typically without budget or hire/fire authority.
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Focuses on mentoring, coaching, and coordination.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
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Ensures a controlled documentation system, record retention, and information services including electronic records retention processes in accordance with regulatory requirements.
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Ensures compliance to the requirements from regulatory agencies.
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Maintains the technical and non-technical documentation change system.
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Assures procedures are in place to classify and maintain records.
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Interprets and enforces all documentation formatting, standards, policies, and operating procedure requirements.
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May identify submission components, communicate documentation standards and coordinate assembly of regulatory dossiers.
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May analyze and evaluate data, extract pertinent information, prepare information abstracts and executive summaries of material searched.
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May maintain extensive knowledge of product information and continuous contacts with local, regional, and divisional customers.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Associates Degree (± 13 years)
Experience/ Background
Experience
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Experience Details
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Minimum 4 years in the related field.
Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)
- Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
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.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.
The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 – $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 584 open Quality Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$90–180K/yr
- California median$147–218K/yr42 salary ranges
- US median$120–177K/yr324 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $135K, is 26% below the California median midpoint ($183K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Management salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Quality Management jobs in California and 584 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health5 open
- Infineon Technologies AG3 open
- BeOne Medicines2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Quality Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 478 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 252 of the 584 open Quality Management jobs (43%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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