Manufacturing Process Engineer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott 

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 you dream of. 
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO 
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity  

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular division.

The Manufacturing Process Engineer will serve as the primary manufacturing engineer supporting operations in Abbott Vascular Temecula. The individual performing this role will have to integrate with the team supporting the manufacturing line including but not limited to: the line supervisor, Quality Engineer and operators to address the opportunities found in their assigned manufacturing line. They will be accountable for quality, safety, product output and yield for their assigned manufacturing line. This person may also have a contributing role as a sustaining engineer for the department.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Responsible for the daily support to the manufacturing activities in order to meet established goals for safety, quality, cost, and production.
• Maintains systems that support the monitoring of key performance indicators such as yield, nonconforming material or lead time. If indicators show an adverse trend, works with the functional team to plan and implement appropriate changes.
• Works with line support team (QC Supervisor, Mfg Supervisor, Quality Engineer and Operations) to perform line situation triage and determine if non-conformance is present, determine initial bracketing and containment, and support generation of ER, if needed.
• Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Responsible for product/process knowledge and understanding of basic cause and effect of line and process changes. Understands potential risk related to product nonconformance. Has knowledge and expertise on product requirements and specifications.
• Stays current. Keeps aware of the changing technical and competitive environment as it relates to the business; establishes a means of keeping abreast with technology on own engineering area and sharing with co-workers, e.g., stays current in product/process innovations in areas of expertise.
• Assures that production lines output meet the specifications of the product.
• Has clear criteria of conforming/ non-conforming product and the on-line and reliability test methods used for verifying product conformance.
• Maintains manufacturing documentation such as manufacturing process instructions, lot history records, bill of materials.
• Investigates, conducts test or experiments, gathers data, performs preliminary analysis, and reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.
• Leads root cause analysis efforts for basic/simple manufacturing events, utilizing DMAIC model and A3s. Supports CAPA (Major) investigations with data gathering and analysis as needed.
• Line support representative for related projects such as yield improvements, Cost Improv