Associate Clinical 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Associate Clinical Engineer – Structural Heart

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

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

In this role, you will perform entry-level technical activities to create new or modify existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and/or tools in support of the company's strategic plan.

You will work with team to apply clinical engineering and scientific principles to evaluate and resolve technical problems with supervision from technical lead and/or manager.

This role supports continuous improvement.

What You’ll Work On

• Uses foundations of engineering to apply appropriate experimental, statistical, investigation and engineering tools to develop/modify design to meet business goals.
• Multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to contribute to a team designing and developing innovative medical devices or components/subsystems in support of company's strategic plan.
• Utilizes training and experience to design and develop technical drawings and documents.
• Involved in executions of test methods and simulation models development to mitigate design risks and ensure new design reliability as directed.
• Remains abreast of technical advancements and continually develops skills.
• Involved in creating/updating specifications, test methods and models, protocols and reports.
• Participates in prototyping product, tools, and fixtures required for research and/or development purposes.
• Supports team to work with internal departments and external vendors to obtain prototype parts and to understand their capabilities and limitations.
• Coordinates with internal departments and vendors to receive prototypes for new / modified designs, performs engineering analysis and testing to ensure the design meets established requirements.
• Use empirical and experimental analysis to evaluate designs and identify potential issues with design.
• Gains knowledge of risk mitigation to anticipate risk and takes appropriate action.
• Participates in technical design reviews.
• Writes, reviews and assesses impact of engineering changes.
• Completes engineering tasks per established timelines. Independently manage time and completion of assigned tasks.
• Supports improvement of products, processes, and/or design tools to be employed for investigation and design development.
• Understands and communicates new and existing engineering designs.
• Interprets drawings and specifications and communicate to suppliers, stakeholders, and customers.
• Prepares and presents clear presentations with engineering arguments supporting design within the team and peers.
• Gains understanding of the quality and regulatory requirements for medical devices.
• Gains understanding of the developing clinical environment (i.e. - current treatment methods, evolving needs).
• Provide Clinical field based