Senior Mechanical Engineer
AbbottAbout the role
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title
Senior Mechanical Engineer
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.
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 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 Irving, TX (LC 02) location in the Core Diagnostics team. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
What You’ll Work On
Our Core Diagnostics team is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to provide leadership and technical expertise in support of new and existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and tools. This role involves applying engineering and scientific principles to evaluate and solve technical challenges. The ideal candidate works independently with general supervision on moderately complex projects and assignments and may offer guidance to entry-level engineers. The engineer will play a key role in driving continuous quality improvement across all initiatives and be a technical lead for individua projects (component/subassembly).
In addition
Design, verify, and validate medical devices per internal procedures and regulatory standards.
Apply empirical, numerical, and experimental analyses to evaluate designs.
Select appropriate materials, components, processes, and technologies for subsystems.
Define analytical and experimental approaches to assess design performance.
Develop test methods and simulation models to reduce design risk and ensure reliability.
Stay current with technical advancements and continuously build skills.
Create and maintain documentation (specs, schematics, layouts) for design release and control.
Develop and execute test methods for design checkout and verification of subassemblies.
Documents subsystem products, tools, fixtures, and prototypes with specifications, schematics and layouts for documentation control and release.
Uses root cause analysis (RCA) tools and techniques to troubleshoot complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
Provides written technical justifications and rationales for complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
Provides input into risk management documentation including dFMEA, pFMEA and risk analyses. Identifies and mitigates sub-assembly design risks.
Achieves engineering tasks per established timelines.
Provide recommendations to improve products, processes, and/or design tools to be employed for investigation and design development.
Leads project discussions and sets direction for assigned projects across cross-functional team.
Assist other Engineers by performing peer review of design and technical design review documentation.
May act as Independent Reviewer for Design Plans and lead small project teams and/or mentor junior level engineers
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