Sr. Process 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:

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 .

• 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.

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.

Senior Process Engineer will be providing manufacturing engineering support to the divisional engineering team within operations organization. Completes professional level engineering assignments related to a specific field or discipline. Provides technical support on projects involving the design, validation, and manufacture of complex electromechanical products and its manufacturing processes. Emphasis on component qualifications, risk mitigation, and process improvement. This position will interface regularly with internal functional teams such as R&D, Engineering, Quality

engineering, Supplier Quality, and Supply Chain in addition to interacting with contract and component suppliers.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for managing and implementing GMI efforts across multiple sites involving components and process qualifications.
• Works as project lead and provides technical guidance for manufacturing engineering.
• Performs component, instrument, or equipment validations that relies heavily upon comprehensive knowledge of the product’s theory of operation and design.
• Provides production line training as required. Initiate, process, and implement engineering change notices to process work instructions to ensure the correctness of product configuration and adequacy of the manufacturing instructions.
• Drives for continuous product and/or process improvement.
• Generates, analyzes, and summarizes data to identify improvement opportunities or to determine appropriate limits and variables for product and process. Performs Corrective and Preventative Action investigations to determine root causes for identified defects and/or trends.
• Provides recommendations for preventative or corrective actions.
• Faces issues and takes initiative to resolve them constructively so all parties can be productive.
• Knows when to involve others and actively participates in team meetings.
• Serves as a leader, contributor, facilitator, consultant, and/or technical expert according to the needs of the team and task.
• Confronts issues in a constructive manner and at an appropriate organizational level and perseveres in the face of adversity.
• Makes risk conscious decisions to ensure identified issues are assessed and resolved in a manner that constitutes Abbott’s commitment to product quality, regulatory compliance, and product availability.
• Complete Engineering tasks in accordance to current quality system requirements, under the guidance of a Project Leader or more senior engineer.
• Remain current with the latest technical developments in Engineering Discipline through personal development and training.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering or