• Director, Engineering

    Abbott (Alameda, CA)


    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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

    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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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

     

    The Director of Engineering works within the Global Operations Engineering function and is responsible for the creation of innovative engineering process design and design for manufacturability of medical products in the highly regulated medical device environment. They are responsible for creating and maintaining an efficient, highly motivated, technical development organization. This is a new function within Abbott Diabetes Care, aimed at accelerating the growth of the Diabetes division through decreasing the time to market for new products and processes specifically the time to develop new process equipment and tooling.

    What You’ll Work On

    • Functional management of process development engineering disciplines in an FDA controlled environment.

    • Engineering Department Budgeting including long range capital planning for new processes and tooling

    • Assessment and identification of new process automation and tooling suppliers

    • New technology assessment and road mapping.

    • Career development of direct reports.

    • Communicate group status to senior staff.

    • Define and establish company wide policies and procedures for design for manufacture.

    • Partnering with the R&D team to optimize the input of manufacturing at the earliest stage of development

    • Ensure teams are compliant with Quality System requirements.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

    • Minimum 12 years experience in product/process development roles

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Master's Degree

    • Experience with medical device development

    • Demonstrated substantial knowledge of regulations for medical device development (ISO13485, FDA QSR) and/or demonstrated substantial experience in product development for very quality sensitive applications.

    **Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:** www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

     

    Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

     

    Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

     

    The base pay for this position is $169,300.00 – $338,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

    An Equal Opportunity Employer

     

    Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

     

    We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

     

    To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]