Engineer, Intermediate; Assembly Engineering - Point of Care

Position: Engineer, Intermediate (Assembly Engineering) - Point of Care )
Engineer, Intermediate (Assembly Engineering) - Point of Care (Ottawa) page is loaded## Engineer, Intermediate (Assembly Engineering) - Point of Care (Ottawa) locations:
Canada - Ontario - Ottawa time type:
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January 23, 2026 (6 days left to apply) job requisition :
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**** 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 will have access to:
* Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
* 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.
** The Opportunity
** This position works out of our Ottawa office, in the Point of Care, Diagnostics division.  We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including Chemistry, Electrolytes, Hematology, Blood Gases, Coagulation, Endocrinology, Cardiac Markers, Neurology, and Informatics.
As the Intermediate Engineer for Assembly Line 8, you’ll have the chance to be a key contributor in ensuring manufacturing output, quality, and compliance of i-STAT cartridges.  In this role you will be responsible for achieving all key performance indicators (KPI) for the Assembly Line, including:  Safety, Quality, Line Output, Line Yield, Material Use Variance, OEE, and Productivity.
** What You’ll Do
*** Monitor and action Line KPI’s such as Cartridges per Hour (CPH), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Line Yield, Output, Faults, and Downtime through collaboration with Operational, Technician, and Engineering stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure that daily / weekly / monthly performance targets are being achieved.
* Represent your line’s performance at Tier 1 (Line Team) and Tier 2 (Cross Functional Assembly Team) Performance Huddles, escalating support requests.
* Work with Line Machine Operators to develop best practices for Line Operation to achieve KPI targets and standardize performance across the shifts.
* Support Line Operation and Maintenance through certification to develop subject matter expertise, guide improvement prioritization, and ensure achievement of production targets.
* Utilize Structured Problem Solving to drive to root cause on ongoing Performance and Quality issues and identify, develop, and implement robust and pragmatic solutions to avoid recurrence.
* Track and Trend Critical Process Parameters (CPP), Critical to Quality Attributions (CQA), Finished Goods performance, and Customer Complaints to ensure that Cartridge Assembly quality issues are adequately mitigated to limit bracketing and containment of outgoing cartridge lots.
* Drive stable and predictable quality through the establishment and maintenance of PFMEAs, Control Plans, Process Monitoring, and Error detection, proofing, and containment.
* Ensure the compliant state of Line through development/sustaining of systems for Good Record Keeping practices for all manufacturing data and sustaining of Validations, verifications, calibrations, and design changes associated with the Line.
* Ensure timely resolution of quality events (QRs, holds, complaints), driving for determination of root cause (investigation) and implementation of robust corrective actions or mitigations (CAPAs). Ensure process and equipment changes are validated or verified according to current quality standards.
* Lead projects of medium complexity with budgets.  Support projects of high complexity with budgets.
* Lead resolution of medium and high impact…