Abbott
Healthcare
EngineeringManager
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“Engineering Manager at Abbott. Skills: Manufacturing operations, Continuous Improvement, Supplier management. Manage and provide direction to team. Ensure materials are available and efficiently utilized”
What You'll Achieve.
Optimize business end results; Achieve site volume build; Improve manufacturability of products; Improve equipment availability; Enhance regulatory compliance; Meet division goals; Meet corporate goals; Ensure satisfactory standards of materials; Ensure satisfactory standards of products; Ensure satisfactory standards of services
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving skills; Complex problem solving; Trouble shooting
20 % travel, On-site
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Minimum 8 years related work experience, Experience supervising team, Excellent communication skills in English and Spanish, Computer literate, Microsoft Office
Nice to Have
MBA desirable, Project management experience, Supply Chain experience, Risk assessments exposure, Materials specs and compositions exposure, Suppliers' negotiations exposure, Costenefits and material usage analysis exposure, Planning and forecasting exposure, Identification of market factors affecting materials interactions with product exposure
What You'll Do.
Manage and provide direction to team
Ensure materials are available and efficiently utilized
Ensure manufacturing equipment are up and running
Provide technical leadership
Understand product knowledge
Generate Continuous Improvement Projects
Design Continuous Improvement Projects
Execute Continuous Improvement Projects
Improve materials specifications
Analyze product/material yield
Resolve yield related events
Perform risk assessment of materials
Perform risk assessment of process
Perform risk assessment of equipment
Prevent disruptions to supply chain operations
Resolve complex problem solving related to materials
Resolve complex problem solving related to product
Resolve complex problem solving related to process
Lead materials related savings projects
Manage relationship with major suppliers
Manage relationship with vendors
Manage relationship with subcontractors
Assure compliance of subordinates to policies
Interface with other plant areas
Interface with divisional organizations
Implement cost reduction projects
Troubleshoot plant processes
Cultivate internal network of resources
Cultivate external network of resources
Facilitate site procurement activities
Act as technical liaison with suppliers
Support projects execution
Utilize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
Mentor employees by sharing technical expertise
Provide feedback and guidance to employees
Initiate actions to maximize profits
Suggest actions to maximize profits
Support actions to maximize profits
Contain expenses through improved operations
Contain expenses through new products transfers
Contain expenses through improved material selection
Contain expenses through plant's facilities capacity studies
Contain expenses through equipment capacity studies
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with multiple teams; Work hand to hand with Purchasing area; Assist site management team
Communication Scope
Excellent communication
Process & Methodology
Project management
Full Job Description
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. ## **JOB DESCRIPTION:** **Engineering Manager,** this position is on-site at our Vascular manufacturing facility in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. **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. * Health Insurance (starting on Day 1 of employment), Savings Plan (401K) with company match, Life insurance for you and your spouse/children, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Education Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Vacation, Sick, Personal Days. * 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 will provide support to our Medical Devices, Vascular manufacturing facility in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks and Abbott Vascular provides innovativ
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