Sr. Engineer, Packaging

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:

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.

• 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

The Senior Engineer, Packaging will support packaging and labeling processes for established product lines. Develop packaging and labeling for new products.

This role support's packaging and labeling processes for established product lines. Develop's packaging and labeling for new products.

What You'll Work On

 

This position:

• Select, procure, install, and validate packaging and labeling equipment.

• Conduct Process FMEAs.

• Identify and implement packaging/labeling process improvement projects.

• Design, develop and test a wide variety of packaging used for the protection, display, and handling of products.

• Determine packaging specifications according to the nature of the product, cost limitations, legal requirements, and the type of protection required, considering need for resistance to such external variables as moisture, corrosive chemicals, temperature variations, light, heat, rough handling, and tampering

• Design package exteriors considering such factors as product identification, sales appeal, aesthetic quality, printing and production techniques.

• Responsibilities may include documentation management and an understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).

• Creation and management of change requests within the document control system (currently Windchill).

• May supervise or provide work direction to other engineers and technicians.

• May lead or serve as member of cross-functional project teams.

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

 

 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Packaging Engineering or Mechanical Engineering OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum 5 years in packaging or material handling.

• Medical device experienc