Job Description
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.
* 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 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 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
The Director of Engineering works within the Global Operations Engineering function and is responsible for the creation of innovative engineering process design and design for manufacturability of medical products in the highly regulated medical device environment.
They are responsible for creating and maintaining an efficient, highly motivated, technical development organization. This is a new function within Abbott Diabetes Care, aimed at accelerating the growth of the Diabetes division through decreasing the time to market for new products and processes specifically the time to develop new process equipment and tooling.
Responsibilities
* Functional management of process development engineering disciplines in an FDA controlled environment.
* Engineering Department Budgeting including long range capital planning for new processes and tooling.
* Assessment and identification of new process automation and tooling suppliers.
* New technology assessment and road mapping.
* Career development of direct reports.
* Communicate group status to senior staff.
* Define and establish company wide policies and procedures for design for manufacture.
* Partnering with the R&D team to optimize the input of manufacturing at the earliest stage of development.
* Ensure teams are compliant with Quality System requirements.
Requirements
* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
* Minimum 12 years experience in product/process development roles.
* Master's Degree.
* Experience with medical device development.
* Demonstrated substantial knowledge of regulations for medical device development (ISO13485, FDA QSR) and/or demonstrated substantial experience in product development for very quality sensitive applications.