Sr Manufacturing 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:

Senior Manufacturing 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 St Paul, MN location in the Structural Heart Medical Device division.  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.

This position is responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Leads projects and technical staff to develop engineering solutions to significant new products or processes; implements major line improvement or capital building projects. Establishes engineering project objectives and technical criteria for evaluating project results and activities of project team. Develops processes that lead to shortened cycle time; makes major impact decisions. Is responsible for important segment of engineering program of an organization with diversified engineering requirements. Focuses on business end and recommends facilities, personnel and funds required to carry out programs to reach overall organizational objectives.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.

• Develops, plans, coordinates and directs engineering aspects of projects of major scope and importance.

• Support Structural Heart operations through capital equipment projects focused on capacity and/or efficiency

• Defines roles and accountabilities to avoid duplicate functions, manages external engineering services effectively.

• Recommends facilities, personnel and funds required to carry out projects. Regularly requires use of ingenuity and creative thinking.

• Focuses on cost and milestone achievement to keep costs low and productivity high.

• Coordinates resources for projects.

• Assists management in training, managing and evaluating less experienced engineering and technical staff.

• Represents division on projects.

• Helps individuals overcome resistance to change.

Required Qualifications

• Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical or any engineering or technical degree or equivalent experience required

• Minimum 5 years manufacturing engineering experience. Prior manufacturing engineering experience is preferred, but not required.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills

• Demonstrated leadership capability in team settings

• Ability to lead and motivate peers, drive change and problem solve with creativity.

• Ability to travel approximately 10%, including internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical device experience preferred, but not required