Sr. Specialist Systems Integration

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 will 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 Free 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

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

Our Diagnostics / Core Lab business currently has a full-time, on-site opportunity for a Sr. Systems Integration Specialist. This Sr. Systems Integration Specialist will be based at our Abbott Park, IL office. The Sr. Systems Integration Specialist applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to ensure and verify design of the subsystem integrate and function optimally as a system, to provide system solutions, improvements, and enhancements to achieve overall systems performance. Resolves product problems and technical issues with minimal oversight across multiple system functions.

Responsibilities

• Maintains adherence to Quality System - Implements and maintains the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Defines and documents critical performance requirements that link to system design across interacting functions (i.e., hardware, software, labeling and / or assay).
• Collaborates with technical organization to develop and refine system solutions through the concept, feasibility, development, and qualification phases of the development process.
• Leads systems related analysis to assess performance against design specification, and assessment of system interactions. Leads technical review of complex system related system integration, verification, and characterization studies.
• Leads development of systems integration test methods / processes and troubleshooting instrument (hardware/software/and assay/reagent interaction issues to determine root cause and possible solutions. Resolves complex system-level problems.
• Writes and executes complex system related verification and characterization protocols and packages.
• Applies moderately complex quantitative methods, analyzes data, evaluates results, forms conclusions, and provides and implements improvements.
• Mentors junior-level team members and supports system integration knowledge sharing activities to alignment with strategic business needs.
• Supports technical team in evaluating Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) / Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Leads team members in application and analysis of multiple optimization process techniques: Set targets, ranges, and specs – DOE, Guard band, Capability (CPk), Test Method development, troubleshoot parts and subsystems. Reviews and / or develop FMEA, hazards, modes of control for risk management. Leads complex investigations involving interacting system level issues.

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required. Preferably in Life or Physical Science, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years’ work-related experience.
• Experience with Systems and / or Assay development principles and concepts.
• Demonstrated experien