TPM Project Manager III

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 your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Austin, Texas location in the 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.

An engineering professional who, working with little or no supervision, applies project management knowledge, engineering knowledge and ingenuity to complete small to medium size projects from concept thru project closure within or across disciplines.

What You’ll Work On 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

•Develop, plan, coordinate, and manage multiple, often concurrent projects with significant scope and impact to drive factory performance improvement and achieve Operational Excellence and GMI goals.

•Understands the business needs and has a thorough knowledge of the customer when developing a project scope. Incorporates business foresight.

•Leads development of Project Charters and define initial requirements that align with the stakeholder’s needs and expectations.

•Establishes project objectives and success criteria for evaluating project results and ensuring cohesive project team to meet these goals.

•Uses Lean Six Sigma methodologies established PM tools and techniques (FEP, Cash Flow Projections, Scope / Schedule Control, etc.) to stay within authorized budget limits and achieve the overall project and organizational objectives.

•Develops project plan documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans. Directs and manages Project Execution by performing the work defined in the project plan to achieve project objectives.

•Manages all phases of project management, from planning and execution to monitoring and closing. Focuses on cost and milestone achievement to optimize resource utilization.

•Defines roles and responsibilities. Manages or Directs efforts of internal and external resources. Monitors and controls project work to meet the performance objectives defined in the project plan.

•Reviews change requests, manages and approves changes to the deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project plan.

•Monitors and controls project work to meet the performance objectives defined in the project plan. Effectively manages services and suppliers.

•Implements common project management tools and methodologies. Contributes to the development of project management best practices.

•Identifies areas of risk and mitigates risks through comprehensive risk assessments and implementation of fallback / mitigation strategies.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT:

• Support development and manage project portfolio to ensure alignment with business goals, optimize resources, and balance short- and long-term objectives.
• Evaluate and prioritize proj