Senior Continuous Improvement 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.

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 Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

This role is responsible for analyzing, designing, and implementing manufacturing and business process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, reduce the work-in-process, improve fill-rates, and improve process flow and efficiency. These actions will occur across multiple facets of Abbott's organization including: manufacturing, design, supplier development, documentation, and Abbott's suppliers. Projects will incorporate lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, quick response manufacturing, Just-In-Time, Methods-Time Measurement, or a variety of other systems improvement philosophies. The employee will be required to create strong relationships with team members internal and external to Abbott to ensure project success.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyzes, creates and implements manufacturing and/or business process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, reduce work in process and improve fill rates.

• Completes capacity analyzes internally and/or at suppliers for headcount, equipment and space requirements using simulation software or other effective tools.

• Designs, implements and maintains effective metrics with internal customers or suppliers to ensure unbridled supply is achieved.

• Participates as a core member in cross-functional teams to quickly troubleshoot and eliminate product supply issues internally or at suppliers.

• Makes recommendations to design teams, which drive higher yielding, lower cost, more manufacturable products.

• May use financial analyses tool and recommend alternative courses of action.

• Convinces internal customer or suppliers to make fundamental changes to their manufacturing and/or business processes so that unbridled supply can be achieved.

• Develops and coordinates ergonomic projects.

• Establishes and cultivates an extensive network of support to facilitate completion of assignments.

• Participates in the development of less experienced staff by setting an example, providing guidance and work direction, and offering counsel.

• May lead a project team.

• Participates in determining goals and objectives for projects.

• Influences middle management on technical or business solutions.

• May interact with vendors.

• Plans and organizes non-routine tasks w/approval.

• Initiates or maintains work schedule.

• Establishes priorities of work assignments.

• Exercises judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.

• Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering discipline

• 6 years related work experience

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 – $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• lean manufacturing
• continuous improvement
• manufacturing process optimization
• business process analysis
• capacity analysis
• simulation software
• metrics development
• financial analysis
• just-in-time manufacturing
• methods-time measurement
• supplier development
• project leadership
• ergonomic project management
• stakeholder management
• work direction