Senior Engineer, Continuous Improvement

6 days ago


Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States Abbott Laboratories Full time
About the Role

Abbott Laboratories 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. As a Senior Engineer, Continuous Improvement, you will be part of our Cardiac Rhythm Management division, where we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead or contribute to projects which include new production equipment, process improvements, and cost reductions while supporting new product introductions.
  • Provide technical mentorship to engineers and technicians.
  • Improve product quality, labor efficiency, and throughput through the use of Lean manufacturing concepts.
  • Work with Product Development to ensure Design for Manufacturability.
  • Analyze, create, and implement manufacturing and/or business process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, reduce work in process, and improve the quality, cost, and delivery performance of Abbott.
  • Identify opportunities and drive incorporation of appropriate Lean tool usage such as 5S, time study, line balancing, standard work, material flow, and value stream mapping, process mapping, and Kaizen event into the daily functions of continuous improvement.
  • Make recommendations to teams, which drive higher yielding, lower cost, more manufacturable products.
  • Support all Divisional initiatives as identified by divisional management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Master's Degree preferred.
  • Minimum 6 years related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area.
  • Technical/Business Knowledge-Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures.
  • Strong understanding of business unit function and cross-group dependencies/relationships.
  • Cognitive Skills- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
  • Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
About Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO, an excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution, tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit. We are 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.

Base pay for this position is $72,700.00 – $145,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.



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