Senior Engineer 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

ABOUT ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS:

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.

Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations — with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics.

Our location in Lake County, IL currently has an opportunity for a Senior Engineer III.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The role is responsible implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Completes professional level engineering assignments related to a specific field or discipline. Leads and participates in projects involving the Design, fabrication, validation, and manufacture of complex instrument subassemblies, systems or processes. Capable of and managing leading a team for project or manufacturing related tasks.

• Performs assignments of a very complicated or difficult nature requiring a high degree of technical competence.
• Plans, organizes, and conducts technical and capital projects.
• Consolidates results of design elements of major projects for purpose of design review.
• Uses engineering principles to conduct technical investigations involved with the modification of material, component, or process specifications and requirements.
• Conceives and plans projects to explore product or process problems, defines and selects new concepts and approaches to the design or development of new or improved products or processes.
• Applies the results of reviews of literature, patents, and current practices to the solution of current problems.
• Forms and suggests ideas to support the strategic technical direction of the area.
• Provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers, designers, and technicians.
• Formulates detailed plans for execution by other less experienced engineers.
• Provide input on potential candidates to be hired into the team, interface with product team members, PCB designers, manufacturing or design engineer, R&D, marketing, regulatory (internal), site engineering, Instrument Development managers, and operations.
• Synthesizes Proven Approaches: Integrates multiple approaches to solve problems or optimize solutions in complex or cross functional manufacturing processes or product designs.
• Creates/Modifies Subsystems Designs for Complex Problems: Integrates subsystems and components in total systems designs, develops specifications from customer requirements.
• Integrates Multiple Project Plans: Establishes and reviews plans for multiple activities/ projects or plans highly complex personal projects, monitors and takes corrective action for processes and systems.
• Translates Regulatory Requirements into Validation Process: Creates efficient protocols for validation of complex system functions and defines validation process.
• Exchanges information with appropriate frequency and within a time frame to maximize its utility and promote cross functional collaboration, verifies that information is understood by the recipient.
• Adapts Information to Customer Needs: Delivers communications tailored to the needs of the receiver.
• Makes Presentations: Defines purpose and objectives, organizes ideas, prepares A-V aids, keeps timing frame and presents intelligibly. Listen actively to acquire information and understand the others viewpoint.
• Give Constructive Feedback: Give appropriate, helpful information specific to the issue, uses examples, ties feedback to specific business issues.
• Faces conflicts and takes initiative to resolve them constructively so all parties can be productive, knows when to involve others.
• Shares resources and knowledge, assures the team takes accountability, draws on strengths of each team member.
• Serves as leader, supervisor, contributor, facilitator, consultant, technical expert, arbitrator, evaluator according to the needs of the team and task.
• Makes timely and effective decisions, considers alternatives, uses sound judgment, achieves closure on work.
• Confronts issues in a constructive manner and at an appropriate organizational level, perseveres in the face of adversity.
• Keeps morale high by encouraging others, giving positive feedback and setting a good example, makes and keeps commitments.
• Identifies future development needs - translates changes in business goals and objectives.
• Provides input to Strategic Decision Process that defines the operational strategy.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or closely related discipline with five or more years progressive work experience.
• Exceptions to the degree requirement at this level require approval of the appropriate level of Senior Management.
• Four to six years progressive work experience

Preferred

• Practical experience with cell culture and fermentation equipment in a GMP environment.
• Experience defining requirements and specifications to support the design and build of fermentation processing equipment.
• Experience with facility, utility, equipment, software and process validation.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs.
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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 $71,300.00 – $142,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Salary : $71,300 - $0