Staff 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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

 

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:

• 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

 

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Lake Forest, IL location in the Core Diagnostics Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are 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. Core Diagnostics products and associated manufacturing processes are developed and commercialized under a comprehensive quality system which complies to regulatory authority requirements for country’s Abbott supplies product to.

 

The Staff Engineer is a career established and productive leader accountable for on-time and within budget completion of project/program milestones for new and existing products, processes, prototypes, mold tooling and associated equipment. The desired candidate must have a proactive mindset and exceptional project & task completion skills. Additional desired attributes include a thirst to be an everyday learner, strong emotional intelligence, and an ability to apply critical thinking to navigate through issues and risks.  The candidate should have an ability to create and maintain peer and leadership relationships by treating people with respect and dignity and accepts leadership decisions as final. The candidate must work independently and cross-functionally with minimal supervision on larger, moderately complex projects/assignments and executes compliantly, efficiently, on-time, and within budget to meet business objectives. The candidate must be a skilled communicator, both written and verbally, and have a desire to inspire others to constantly achieve more to fulfill Abbott promise of creating life-changing health care technologies that help people live better, fuller lives.

 

What You’ll Work On

• Develop, lead & manage multiple Division Engineering product, capital asset, and process projects.
• Apply scientific knowledge and experience to create an appropriately scoped project plan that meets business and compliance requirements.
• Estimates and conveys resource and effort requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, seeking input from appropriate staff, and understanding of quality system requirements.
• Must be capable of drafting technical assessments for proposed design output changes.
• Prepare project plans, schedules, and budgets by using project management tools suc