Associate Manufacturing Process 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:

Associate Manufacturing Process Engineer

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 Abbott Park, IL (Lake Bluff, IL) location in Transfusion Medicine. 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.

As the Associate Manufacturing Process Engineer within the Engineering team, you’ll be an engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, and ingenuity to complete basic engineering assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline. Must demonstrate skill in design and execution of equipment qualification studies, problem solving and innovation. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. This person must engage with operations to help drive the success of the department. This person must also have a customer service mentality and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal).

What You’ll Work On

• Plans and conducts small-sized assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.

• Implements plans; initiates execution of own work plan; monitors executions for adherence to plan, e.g., documents work status and reports to management with appropriate frequency.

• Facilitates the definition of a project scope with clients.

• Within structure, plans own work, manages several, often concurrent, tasks to accomplish assigned tasks to meet or exceed expectations (cost, quality, time).

• Participates in basic economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives under guidance. Jointly responsible for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives.

• Keeps aware of the changing technical and competitive environment as it relates to the business; establishes a means of keeping abreast with technology on own engineering area and sharing with co-workers, e.g., stays current in product/process innovations in areas of expertise.

• Participates and/or assists other engineers in the design products / processes / equipment / systems / facilities by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.

• Investigates, conducts test, or experiments, gathers data, performs preliminary analysis, and reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans.

• Creates/modifies designs for basic problems. Reviews existing layouts and standards and creates a proposed design, e.g., uses appropriate tools to complete design drawing/layout; designs a simple piece of equipment or system; modifies an existing design to meet a new need.

• Interprets problems/recommends solutions. Appli