Manufacturing Engineer

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 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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. Youll 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 high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors 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

This position works out of our Roseville MN location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management medical device division supporting the Distribution Center.

The Manufacturing Engineer supports operational excellence by leading process improvement initiatives analyzing performance data and implementing solutions that improve efficiency quality and customer service. This role collaborates with operations quality engineering and support teams to manage projects investigate issues support CAPA and validation activities develop technical documentation and procedures and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory safety and quality requirements while delivering measurable business results.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer who is looking to learn more about logistics and continuous improvement lean methodologies and operational problem solving. The successful candidate will gain hands-on experience leading improvement initiatives facilitating change across all levels of the organization and contributing to a safe compliant and high-performing distribution environment while building strong technical and leadership capabilities.

What Youll Work On

Operations and Continuous Improvement

Focus: Project execution process improvement and operational support.

• Develop and execute work plans to meet safety quality delivery cost and timeline objectives.
• Develop and maintain procedures standards process controls and performance metrics.
• Develop project documentation business cases and capital expenditure requests.
• Partner with Finance and Operations on budgeting forecasting and performance reporting.

• Analyze processes equipment layouts and workflows to improve performance.
• Support production downtime response and operational problem solving.

• Lead and support operational engineering and continuous improvement projects.

• Utilize Lean and Six Sigma tools including DMAIC A3 SPC 5S Gemba time studies line balancing and standard work.

Communication and Collaboration

Focus: Stakeholder engagement customer service and cross-functional collaboration.

• Define project scope and requirements with customers and stakeholders.
• Communicate recommendations project updates and action plans.
• Set clear expectations and proactively manage risks issues and commitments.

• Build strong relationships across functions customers vendors and contractors.
• Influence and align stakeholders to achieve business objectives.
• Share knowledge best practices and resources across teams.

Quality and Compliance

Focus: Quality systems regulatory compliance safety and risk management.

• Ensure compliance with FDA quality system safety environmental and company requirements.
• Identify and mitigate quality safety operational and compliance risks.
• Support validation activities audits inspections and quality programs.
• Lead or support CAPA investigations root cause analysis and effectiveness checks.
• Partner with EHS to maintain a safe work environment and strong safety culture.

Required Qualifications

• Associates Degree ( 13 years)
• Minimum 1 year relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in regulated manufacturing distribution healthcare medical device pharmaceutical or related environment preferred.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma Value Stream Mapping 5S SPC and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt preferred; Green Belt a plus.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite (Outlook Teams SharePoint Excel PowerPoint and Visio.
• Experience analyzing large data sets and presenting findings to support business decisions.

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The base pay for this position is

$50700.00 $101300.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Engineering

CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management

United States > Minnesota > Roseville Distribution Center : 2305 Walnut St

Standard

No

Not Applicable

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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