Engineering Manager

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 CRM manufacturing facility in Arecibo 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, CRM manufacturing facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico Manages Manufacturing Engineering department to support manufacturing operations in the site.  Responsible to define and execute the short/medium/long term engineering strategy for the functions previously described.  This role will lead the initiatives to upgrade/optimize the current manufacturing processes.  The role will work in coordination with divisional counterparts to also support/accomplish divisional goals.  Responsible for the day-to-day technical support for manufacturing, process improvement initiatives, process and equipment maintenance/calibration and maintaining an open interface between the site, US technical Services and R&D operations.

Develop Departmental Objective; perform annual employee reviews, report performance measures in monthly review meetings. Develop and monitor departmental budget to meet business commitments. Provide technical direction to the product/process related issues. Work directly with Divisional Technical Service, Process Development and R&D functions in the resolution of the issues. Monitor daily/weekly/monthly product key metric trends and develop action plans as required (i.e. scrap, downtime) Organize, track and report technical projects and key activities. Investigate and report on current risk management activities. Investigate and present status of findings associated with audit observations, NCMR’s and CAPA’s. Ensure compliance with all procedures and all applicable regulatory agency requirements. Administer the manufacturing areas preventive maintenance and calibration systems. Liaison with Divisional Engineering team to develop short- and long-term strategies aligned with his/her areas of responsibilities. Maintaining production equipment files and database. Prepare departmental budgets and control expenditures to stay within spending limits. Work with Continuous Improvement and Engineering functions to develop effective processes capable of meeting quality, cost and supply chain objectives. As the Manager of the Medical Devices, oversees the strategy implementation and operations for implementing and maintaining medical devices processes. Calculates and organizes all data for complex process flow sheets including instrumentation and control considerations. Models processes and units’ operations.