Staff Specialist - Global Engineering Services (GES)

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.
• 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 Abbott Park, IL location in the GES Global Engineering Services division.   

The Corporate Engineering organization is looking for an experienced and motivated individual to serve as Senior Specialist - Engineering. This opportunity is for someone who wants to positively impact the organization in a meaningful role that administratively supports, facilitates and coordinates engineering activities that span across divisions and regions. A part of Global Engineering Services (GES), Corporate Engineering exists to provide support to Abbott’s businesses to help them drive sustainable growth and margin improvement. Corporate Engineering does this by providing cutting-edge solutions, subject matter expertise, best practices, and technologies across Abbott. The GES/CE Senior Specialist - Engineering role significantly contributes to that mission by enabling engineering activities across a broad set of responsibilities as outlined below.

What You’ll Work On

• Provide administrative, analytical, process and document management support to engineering teams for the effective and efficient delivery of services comprising project definition, design reviews, project execution commissioning/qualification/validation (CQV), project closeout, and knowledge management (KM).
• Maintain the SME Design Review workflow process – Tracks status by project / by phase, coordinates preparations for project reviews (scheduling, documentation, PMAC SharePoint site setup and maintenance, tracking of action items/activities, etc.), and facilitates portfolio review meetings.
• Utilize Bluebeam software as a collaborative tool for SME Design Reviews.
• Facilitate monthly/quarterly reporting for capital projects, design reviews and cost recovery, and other relevant departmental metrics such as project data for Management Business Review, etc.
• Support Abbott Engineering Standards (AES) committees’ goals/initiatives, and may participate as an active member in one or more committees.
• Manage communications between GES/CE engineering team, client/division engineering team, and appointed Architecture/Engineering firm, coordinates site visits, and schedules design reviews. Potential to expand responsibilities to include technical support and facilitation for design reviews.
• Administer the department’s SharePoint sites, and associated recurring tasks, pertaining monthly Major Projects updates, Dashboards, and others.
• Support Project Engineers / Project Managers as follows:
  • During Capital Planning:  Long Range Plan (LRP) and Capital Plan activities.
  • During FEP:  Compile RCE package, craft RCE checklists, eRCE write-up, estimate asset write-offs.
  • During Execution:  SAP transactions, BOBJ reports, Maximo workorders, ECMS documentation gathering, PMAC site setup and management, quarterly accruals process, monthly project review dashboards, and FCD extensions.
  • During Closeout:  AIF, ARF, PCN, Final Acceptance, open commitments / invoice reconciliations, PMAC/ECMS turn-over documents.
• Support Commissioning/Validation p