Abbott

Healthcare

ReliabilityEngineer

Pokeno, Waikato, New Zealand FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Reliability Engineer at Abbott. Skills: Equipment reliability, Maintenance excellence, Root cause analysis. Serve as Site Lead for maintenance excellence programme. Identify and manage equipment reliability risks”

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor’s degree in engineering majoring in electrical, control and instrumentation, chemical, IT or related discipline or diploma with minimum 2 years expereince, Min 3+ years of experience in engineering, project management or related field, Proven project management and execution skills, Effective management and influencing capability without direct authority, Clear written and verbal communication skills, Ability to balance regulatory expectations with practical site execution

What You'll Do.

Serve as Site Lead for maintenance excellence programme

Identify and manage equipment reliability risks

Drive continuous equipment reliability improvements

Coordinate technical support

Manage reliability improvement processes

Formulate predictive maintenance techniques

Guide reliability and maintainability efforts

Gather maintenance and manufacturing performance data

Perform trend analysis

Prepare and communicate recommendations

Lead and manage projects

Monitor performance of critical plant equipment

Facilitate root cause analysis

Develop and execute reliability studies

Participate in strategy planning

Benchmark internally and externally

Deploy predictive and reliability centered maintenance strategies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with manufacturing and maintenance teams; Point of liaison for key stakeholders; Attend regular departmental meetings

Communication Scope

Clear written and verbal communication skills; Communicate recommendations and action plans

Process & Methodology

Project management, Project execution, Manage projects related to reliability centered maintenance

Full Job Description

## **JOB DESCRIPTION:** ## **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** As the Reliability Engineer, you will: * Serve as the Site Lead for division maintenance excellence programme. * Collaborate closely with manufacturing and maintenance teams to identify and manage equipment reliability risks that could adversely impact plant or business operations. * Responsible for driving continuous equipment reliability improvements by providing and coordinating technical support and by managing reliability improvement processes for the site with the aim of reducing the risk levels to the business **What You’ll Do:** * Independently plans and coordinates activities within the Maintenance Excellence Program (Mex). Point of liaison for key stakeholders * Formulate predictive maintenance techniques for the manufacturing facility to predict when maintenance should be performed * Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, control and safety systems through robust and sustainable planning and scheduling and effective preventative and predictive maintenance programs * Gathers maintenance and manufacturing performance data and perform trend analysis to

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