Senior Manufacturing Equipment Engineer

23 hours ago

Des Plaines, Illinois, United States Abbott Laboratories Full time
About Abbott Laboratories

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.

Working at Abbott Laboratories

At Abbott Laboratories, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You'll also have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
  • 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 - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's 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

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott's Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position Senior Manufacturing Equipment Engineer is within our Molecular business unit located in Des Plaines IL and is responsible for optimizing and improving manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities
  • Equipment engineer responsible for supporting manufacturing process equipment impacting operations.
  • Analyze and troubleshoot equipment related mechanical/electrical issues and failures. Identify root causes and implement robust solutions.
  • Implement continuous improvements on existing equipment aimed at improving reliability, yield, uptime and efficiency.
  • Recommends data driven actions, aiming for preventative actions over reactive actions.
  • Collaborates as needed with equipment suppliers, manufacturing operations, engineering technicians, and quality assurance to troubleshoot existing manufacturing lines and return to production.
  • Manages equipment change control and executes required validation activities to implement changes.
  • Monitor production to identify areas of improvement and proactively address potential production issues.
  • Collects maintenance and manufacturing performance data and performs analysis.
  • Mentor technicians and junior engineers to ensure compliance and knowledge transfer.
  • Provide technical training to equipment operators, maintenance team, and junior engineers.
  • Create or enhance training materials.
Requirements
  • Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related field (preferably Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering).
  • Minimum of 6 yrs. related experience.
Preferred Experience
  • Extensive experience in hands-on equipment troubleshooting and resolving technical issues.
  • Strong technical abilities to analyze problems using sound engineering practices and tools resulting in effective solutions.
  • Familiarity with preventive and reliability centered maintenance.
  • Ability to acquire, analyze and present data in support of root cause analysis and problem solving efforts.
  • Six Sigma training/certification.
Working Knowledge
  • Mechanical systems.
  • Pneumatic systems.
  • PLCs.
  • Vision Systems.
  • Label printing and application systems.
  • Equipment integration / Automation concepts.
  • SCADA systems.
  • Preventative maintenance programs.
  • Data collection and analysis / tracking and trending.

Abbott Laboratories is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

The base pay for this position is $83,000.00 – $166, In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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