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.

* _P_ _LEASE NOTE: This is not an active open requisition. We are building a candidate slate for a future openings_*

About Abbott

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.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Abbott Point of Care is a global leader in providing critical medical diagnostic and data management products for rapid blood analysis that are intuitive, reliable, and cost-effective. Our i-STAT System is an advanced, portable diagnostic tool that provides real-time, lab-quality results within minutes to accelerate patient-care decision-making. The i-STAT System has the industry’s most comprehensive menu of tests in a single, with-patient platform, including tests for blood gases, electrolytes, chemistries, coagulation, hematology, glucose, and cardiac markers. By delivering lab-quality results in minutes, our i-STAT System fosters a collaborative, patient-centered environment while driving improved operational performance.

The Opportunity

Our Princeton, NJ location has an opportunity for an Engineering Manager responsible for leading the Instrument Operations technical group within APOC that is responsible for i-STAT 1 hardware system on market support. Relocation assistance provided for right candidate.

In this role, the Engineering Manager will ensure that processes and staffing are appropriately developed and implemented, set strategic vision/goals in alignment with organization, drive utilization of engineering tools including root cause analysis, design for manufacturability, and LEAN to improve manufacturing processes, yields, and equipment during the manufacturing stages of the product and ensure executional compliance within the organization to all applicable internal requirements and external regulations.

What you’ll do

• Manage manufacturing process, equipment, material, and supplier technical challenges and quality-related events to maximize production line up time, yield, and on-time delivery.

• Laisse with Third Party Manufacturers in Asia and other suppliers to ensure production and project goals are met.

• Manage the identification and qualification of end-of-life BOM components to ensure availability of raw materials.

• Ensure professional project management techniques are utilized to identify and shorten the critical path tasks in Design Change Package (DCP)/project delivery schedules.

• Coordinates across functional areas and or business units to achieve company and/or area goals.

• Manage change planning integration with the Manufacturing Software Engineering department to ensure smooth software deployment to manufacturing lines.

• Review and approve documents including standard operating procedures, technical specifications, and protocols/reports.

• Interface with external agencies during site audits.

• Champion a culture of teamwork, communication, and recognition.

• Recruit, manage, coach, and develop engineering and technical talent.

• Derive, defend, and adhere to the annual budget for overhead headcount and expenses, project expenses, and capital required to maintain manufacturing operations and implement the necessary cost improvement, supply continuity, product lifecycle management, and regulatory driven changes needed to support the business.

• Support a culture that embraces the safety of the work environment and the safety of our customer’s patients by compliance with company EHS procedures, policies, and GMP requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Biochemistry or other applicable STEM fields).

• 7+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent experience in appropriate business disciplines (such as quality, operations, engineering) with organizations engaged in the manufacture of FDA or similarly regulated products.

• 3+ years of managing technical team (direct or dotted line).

• Strong analytical/technical knowledge and skills to lead organization through collation and analysis of manufacturing data and creation of strategic and tactical plans to achieve goals, drive continuous improvement, and address system, equipment, and process issues.

• Effective communication, leadership skills, and experience influencing cross functional organizations such as R&D, Operations, Quality, and other disciplines to achieve project, business, and/or company goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the medical device industry or with a tangential industry that is regulated similarly to ISO13485.

• 2+ years of experience in design control and product documentation (Bills of Material, Work Instructions, Drawings, Incoming Inspection) systems.

• 1+ year of experience working with Project Management concepts and tools. ​

• Strong organizational skills to lead team/department to achieve diverse set of goals and quality system output requirements.

• Experience with the manufacture or design of electro/mechanical products.

• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, problem solving, and time management skills. Ability/experience to execute and mentor others on the utilization of technical tools such as root cause analysis, LEAN, and six sigma.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com