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Abbott

Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests

Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBarceloneta, Puerto Rico$88.7k - $177.3k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
  • At least 8 years of related work experience in manufacturing and engineering is required.
  • Experience supervising a team is required.
  • Proficiency in English and Spanish is required.
  • Computer literacy and proficiency with Microsoft Office are required.
  • The role requires the ability to lead effectively in a team environment, adapt to change, manage competing priorities, and use analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direction to a team to ensure materials are available and efficiently utilized, and manufacturing equipment is operational to support production.
  • Provide technical leadership for the site, including product knowledge and understanding of materials and processes.
  • Generate, design, and execute continuous improvement projects, including productivity, materials specification improvement, and cost improvement projects.
  • Manage product and material yield, analyze scrap, and resolve yield-related events.
  • Assess risks involving materials, processes, and equipment to prevent supply chain disruptions from suppliers to customers.
  • Resolve complex problems involving materials, products, and processes, including statistical data analysis.
  • Lead materials-related savings projects from initiation through execution and reporting.
  • Select and manage relationships with major suppliers, vendors, or subcontractors to ensure materials, products, and services meet required standards and specifications.
  • Ensure subordinates comply with policies and procedures for quality systems, environmental and regulatory requirements, safety, and human resources.
  • Coordinate with plant areas and divisional organizations to implement cost-reduction projects, improve process understanding, and troubleshoot plant processes.
  • Build internal and external networks to complete tasks and serve as a technical extension of Purchasing, facilitating site procurement and serving as a technical liaison with suppliers.
  • Assist the site management team with project execution, including applying methodologies to process engineering for supply chain optimization.
  • Use enterprise resource planning systems, including SAP, Viewpoint, SharePoint, and CATS WEB.
  • Mentor employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
  • Initiate, recommend, support, and implement actions to maximize profits and contain expenses through improved operations, new product transfers, improved material selection, and plant facility and equipment capacity studies.

Desired Qualifications

  • An MBA is desirable.
  • Project management and supply chain experience can be beneficial.
  • Desired experience includes risk assessments; materials specifications and compositions; supplier negotiations at the product-specification level; supplier and site manufacturing processes; cost-benefit and material-usage analysis; planning and forecasting; and identifying market factors that affect material interactions with products.

About the Company

Abbott

Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests

Abbott makes medical devices, diagnostic tests, nutrition products and branded generic drugs for hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and patients. Its best-known product is the FreeStyle Libre, a coin-sized sensor worn on the upper arm that tracks blood sugar around the clock without routine finger pricks. Its other lines run from heart valves, pacemakers and brain stimulators to lab analyzers, rapid tests and mail-in colon cancer screening kits, and Abbott earns money by selling these products to health systems, labs, retailers and consumers. The company was founded in 1888 by Chicago physician Wallace Abbott and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Abbott Park, IL
Founded
1888

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