Associate TPM Project 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:

Job Description

Job Title

Associate TPM Project 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

The Associate TPM Project Engineer works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Vascular Division. This is a fully onsite role.

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

The Associate TPM Project Engineer is an engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.

What You’ll Work On

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

•  Plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment. Coordinates and monitors activities/projects. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those assigned to project. Makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within discipline. Employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns when appropriate, e.g., tracks actual expenditures compared to projected cash flow for own project. Facilitates the definition of a project scope with clients. Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks, e.g., coordinates work with technicians and associate engineers. Prepares contingency plans and budget for assignments. Participates in economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives. Jointly responsible for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives.

PROBLEM SOLVING/INNOVATION

•  Creates/modified designs for intermediate problems. Designs/modifies more complex components/processes. Writes detailed design specifications, e.g., creates a new production flow diagram. Modifies an existing design to improve a construction process. Predicts patterns/trends, grasps complexities, and sees relationships among data. Determines consequences and alternatives. Makes recommendations, e.g., develops a process improvement for manufacturing. Analyzes problems from multiple perspectives. Improves methods/designs/processes. Recognizes and implements good ideas/innovations/costs reductions. Consistently generates/adopts original solutions to problems and reduces them to practices, e.g., implements better methods to reduce component costs. Creatively applies others' design ideas.

ORGANIZATIONAL INTERFACE

•  Interfaces primarily with internal company contacts (Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, R&D). Communicates very frequently with inter-organizational and outside contacts from the assigned TPM organization on routine matters. Prepares written communication. Conveys information effectively through formal and informal documents with team members, designers, technicians, and other technical personnel, both internal and external to Abbott, using appropriate communications pro