Senior Mechanical Engineer, Sustaining

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.
• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies 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 Alameda, CA location in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division, where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.   

This Senior Mechanical Engineer, Sustaining will use multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to work independently in a lead role or as part of a team, to investigate complaints from on-market medical devices or clinical studies. They will also provide site wide technical leadership in area of expertise.

This is a fully on-site (5 days/week) role in Alameda, CA.

What you’ll work on

• Utilize expertise in the area of mechanical engineering to work with teams inside and outside of R&D performing failure analysis investigations
• Identify opportunities and work with quality assurance to robustly document methods of using product event and data logs to identify root cause of product failures.
• Provide strategies for verification/commissioning of test fixtures
• Review test protocols and reports, participate in CAPA process.
• Utilize excellent communication and organization skills to work with cross functional teams outside of R&D and vendors.
• Utilize good engineering sensibilities, first principles, knowledge of failure modes, knowledge of good lab technique.
• Utilize good deductive reasoning, sound logic and the ability to explain complicated ideas.
• Communicate fluently with electrical, mechanical, and embedded software designers as well as quality assurance, clinical investigations, and upper management.
• Communicate effectively and participate on cross functional development teams with good negotiating skills to direct multi-disciplinary teams toward solutions.
• Work in conjunction with developers in creating investigation processes for new products and solutions for identified failure modes.
• Provide guidance and/or act as independent technical reviewer on projects with little to no previous direct involvement, including technical product design reviews, design requirements documents and CAPAs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring.
• Assist as needed with other projects within R&D
• 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

• Minimum 10 years of experience in R&D engineering.  
• Bachelors Degree (BA or BS) in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field.
• Accomplishment in a relevant specialty demonstrated by device designs, patents, and/or publications. 
• Experience with a variety of manufacturing processes and designing for manufacturability required