Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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

Individuals in this role will work supporting the operations team as a front-line engineer working with assemblers and troubleshooting equipment and process issues. Additionally, this position will manage projects aimed towards designing and developing manufacturing processes, tooling, and fixtures to meet daily production schedules while enhancing productivity and product quality.

What You’ll Work On

• Engage with Front line engineers supporting operations team to build knowledge for current state operations.

• Manage projects which include production equipment, process improvements and cost reductions while supporting. Provide guidance to other engineers and technicians. Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide technical mentorship to engineers and technicians

• Conduct Process FMEAs and Process Validations

• Improve product quality, labor efficiency, and throughput through the use of Lean manufacturing concepts

• Coordinate the design, procurement, build and debug of tooling, machinery and test equipment

• Work with Product Development to ensure Design for Manufacturability

Required Qualifications

• Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical or any engineering or technical degree or equivalent experience required

• Minimum 5 years manufacturing engineering experience. Prior manufacturing engineering experience is preferred, but not required.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills

• Demonstrated leadership capability in team settings

• Ability to lead and motivate peers, drive change and problem solve with creativity.

• Ability to travel approximately 10%, including internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

Medical device experience preferred, but not required

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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 $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• cost reduction
• production equipment management
• change management
• manufacturing process design
• process validation
• tooling design
• analytical skills
• lean manufacturing
• machinery debugging
• medical device manufacturing
• technical mentorship
• project management
• design for manufacturability
• value stream mapping
• root cause analysis
• process fmea