Senior Technical Engineer

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.

• 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Austin, TX location in the Abbott Diabetes Care division where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. 

As a Senior Technical Engineer you will apply scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline, with little to no supervision.

Will maintain general knowledge of other related disciplines beyond specific technical field/discipline of focus. This is an onsite Opportunity in Austin, TX.

What You’ll Work On

• Independently provides expert technical support for nonconformances related to manufacturing or field complaints using root cause analysis (RCA). Provides and implements remediation solutions that address root cause and prevent recurrence across multiple sites.
• Governs and supports the engineering related aspects of the risk management process including periodic review and inter-site alignment of process failure mode and effects analysis (pFMEA) documentation with compliance regulatory requirements in mind.
• Independently plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and meets deadlines by establishing and tracking schedules, working with internal and outside staff to maintain schedules and manage execution to plan.
• Maintains project controls and reporting for cost, scope and schedule, developing and implementing the execution strategy while balancing multiple demands.
• Independently performs economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives, taking responsibility for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives.
• Benchmarks internally and externally, drawing upon a variety of data/insights to anticipate and plan for future directions.
• Actively evaluates and monitors environmental changes, responding to indicators of future problems and/or opportunities, and preparing for those potential scenarios
• Independently executes, and/or directs others in the execution of, the investigation and appropriate action plans to address nonconformances of products/processes/ equipment/systems/facilities by applying new engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Designs and leads complex experiments, often with multiple variables, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis, reports findings and communicates recommendations and action plans to a diversity of stakeholder audiences occupying different levels of authority/influence.
• Creates/modifies designs for intermediate problems, including designing and modifying more complex components/processes, and writing detailed design specifications.
• Leads the collection and analysis of data, looking for relationships/patterns/trends to identify insights and propose solutions/recommendations to pursue opportunities and/or solve problems.
• Analyzes complex interdisciplinary problems and identifies their impact, tests hypotheses, establishes probabilities, draws conclusions reflecting broad business needs and provides recommendations by weighing organizational and financial impacts.
• Implements improvements to methods, designs and processes, proactively sharing and driving the adoption of new ideas and best practices to reduce cost and optimize efficiencies/effectiveness
• Communicates with a wide variety of stakeholder types and levels using formal and informal media, based on the needs and priorities of the audience"
• Builds open, honest, collaborative with a network of colleagues, contractors and vendors by developing an understanding of others’ needs, promoting common goals, and following through on commitments.
• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance within the team and to cross-functional partners
• Provides mentoring in technical and organizational areas within work group, monitoring, assessing and facilitating the development of other engineer(s).

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelors Degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 7 years of work experience
• Significant engineering, project management, and / or operational experience.
• Has demonstrated competency within a discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others’ points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one’s own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.
• Technical or Engineering background in medical devices, pharmaceutical or other regulated sector is preferred. Backgrounds in other areas are considered as applicable.
• Possesses working knowledge of medical device regulations and compliance requirements.
• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control.
• Understanding of procurement & contracting processes.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives