Supervisor, Project Engineering at Abbott Laboratories

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.

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA 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.

The Engineering Supervisor will oversee a team of engineers that provide on market support for Medical Device CRM portfolio of products.  The Supervisor will ensure that projects and tasks are completed on time, within budget, and in compliance to quality system requirements.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for overseeing the work of an engineering team that support CRM products.        
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to their staff while also ensuring that key metrics and deliverables meet quality standards and deadlines.
• Ensures that the engineering group supports on market product design changes and on market product support updates to timeline and budget.
• Supervises the identification and qualification of the engineering group to ensure appropriate product support.
• Resolves technical issues at customer level and improves process capability to ensure continuity of support.
• Supervises resolution of technical issues to maintain internal/external customer satisfaction.
• Negotiates quality issue resolution with Quality System representatives and sets strategy approach for the department’s non-conformance records.
• Represent engineering team function at standing meetings with cross functional partners.
• Implement the necessary cost improvement, product lifecycle management, and regulatory driven changes needed to support the business.
• Champion a culture of teamwork, communication, and recognition.
• Ensures that all personal and team member training is up to date and in compliance.
• Support a culture that embraces the safety of the work environment and the safety of our customer’s patients by compliance with company EHS procedures, policies, and GMP requirements.
• Establish department goals, tracking, and reporting KPIs, and drive continuous improvement efforts.
• Review and approve documents including standard operating procedures, technical specifications, and protocols / reports.
• Liaise with functional or operational area managers (for example in supply and logistics, or engineering) to understand their current and future needs and develop plans, cost estimates, and schedules for integrating these needs into existing manufacturing activities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The base pay for this position is $95,500.00 – $190,900.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.