Senior Manufacturing Engineering Technician

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.


JOB DESCRIPTION:

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'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 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

This position works out of our St. Paul, MN location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

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

What You'll Work On

• Provide day to day maintenance and technical support for Abbott Vascular New Brighton Operations. Perform assigned duties and tasks with limited supervision. Assure functionality and regulatory compliance of production equipment.

What You'll Do

• Perform Preventive Maintenance activities for all production equipment throughout the New Brighton site, documenting detailed maintenance work orders in specified systems

• Provide technical and maintenance assistance and complete assignments in selected areas to optimize equipment performance.

• Perform troubleshooting, equipment failure diagnosis, parts selection, reassembly of equipment and equipment start up oversite.

• Maintain spare parts inventory for site.

• Oversee maintenance and repair work by equipment supplier technicians within the New Brighton site.

• Perform tasks per all applicable regulatory requirements including safety and quality requirements.

• The Technician works with limited supervision and must make decisions to prevent serious quality, safety and environmental problems.

• Errors in judgement or failure to follow rules and procedures could result in serious safety or compliance issues and/or could cause significant equipment or property damage.

Required Qualifications

Education

High School Diploma / GED

or

Technical Diploma (± 12 years)

Completion/certification or equivalent preferred.

Experience/Background

Experience

Minimum 2 years

Maintenance, operations or technical support role is required.

The base pay for this position is
$27.85 - $55.65/hour
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Facilities & Maintenance


DIVISION:
AVD Vascular


LOCATION:
United States > Minnesota > St. Paul : 1225 Old Highway 8 NW


ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard


TRAVEL:
No


MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable


SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Awkward/forceful/repetitive (arms above shoulder, bent wrists), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Work requiring repeated bending, stooping, squatting or kneeling


Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.


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