Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

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.

This position works out of our Menlo Park, CA location in the Structural Heart division.
Structural Heart Business Mission:
Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

• Market Sustaining Team – Manufacturing Engineers that support our market products. How we can improve products, occasionally dealing with field complaints.
• Independently, or lead a project team to identify fluid loss within a process and identify solution to reduce the fluid loss.
• Understand the business needs of the company and have a thorough understanding of customer needs as they relate to projects.
• Lead kaizens to identify root cause within manufacturing process. Work with team to develop corrective and preventative actions.
• Design and lead complex experiments, often with multiple variables, independently execute and/or direct others in the execution of project tasks by applying novel engineering theories, concepts and techniques.
• Conceptualize complete solutions, create or coordinate the design solutions for novel or complex problems; explore multiple alternatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) or independent technical expert (ITE) on a project’s technical matters; may interface with senior management, external firms or agencies, coordinating technical matters between organizations.
• Responsible for completing documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with business standards.
• Participate on cross‑functional teams to support organizational goals.
• Understand and comply with applicable EHS policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining effectiveness of the Quality System.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree (±16 years) in Engineering or similar.
• Typically requires 5 years of relevant work experience preferred as a Manufacturing Engineer.
• Ability or aptitude to work on problems that are complex in scope.
• Demonstrated initiative and problem‑solving skills; critical‑thinking skills.
• Ability to use various types of databases and other computer software.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to quickly gain knowledge, understanding or skills and willingness to learn.
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma concepts is an asset.

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

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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