Manager Manufacturing Engineering

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.

Manager Manufacturing Engineering , this position will provide support to Abbott Cardiac Rhythm Management, located in Arecibo, PR.

This is onsite position.

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 works out of our Arecibo location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division. 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. 

As the Manager Manufacturing Engineering, 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

• Ensures proper sequence of operation and prepares specifications and operating instructions for processing equipment.

• Services, troubleshoots, and solves engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation.

• Ensures processes and procedures are following regulations.

• May be responsible for corrective and preventive actions and investigation management.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in manufacturing operations. Minimum of 4-5 four to five years of experience supervising teams, evaluating performance, and developing staff.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage high-volume workloads and navigate complex professional challenges.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills (English and Spanish); communicating with all levels of organization and in all types of situations.

• Knowledge and ability in: Medical Device, General employment laws, safety and OSHA requirements, Quality Systems, Six Sigma and computer hardware & software tools.

• Strong knowledge in product transfers, validations & qualification plans and statistical methods.

• Digital skills, Microsoft Office knowledge.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience and knowledge in Injection molding.

• Excel and Power BI advanced.

• Experience across multiple functions.

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The base pay for this position is $88,700.00 – $177,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.]]><