Senior Manufacturing Support Engineer

Senior Technical Engineer

Abbott

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• 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 design 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).
  

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• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence.
  
• Minimum 5 years’ significant engineering, project management and/or operational experience.
  
• Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.
  
• 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.
  
• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control. xcfaprz
  
• Understanding of procurement & contracting processes.
  

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