Project Coordinator

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 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 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 Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

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

Project Coordinator: Manages the development and implementation process of company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

What You'll Work On

1. Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope of effort.; 

2. Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project.; 

3. Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.; 

4. Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with SQA to develop and execute project quality plans.; 

5. Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.; 

6. Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate; 

7. Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques.; 

8. Participates in external project management organizations, conferences and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management by joining professional associations 

and implementing a professional development plan with focus on project management.

Position Accountability / Scope (Influence/Leadership) 

Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks.  May lead a project team of moderate 

scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.; 

Comments (optional) (Supervision Received) 

Works under general supervision. Follows established procedures. Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment, overall adequacy and accuracy.; 

(Supervision Provided) 

May provide limited work directio