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Thornton Tomasetti lists this Engineering Manager opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.Descritivo de Cargo**Engineering Manager,** this position is on-site at our Vascular manufacturing facility in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.**About Abbott**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 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 will provide support to our Medical Devices, Vascular manufacturing facility in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks and Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.This role will promote Abbott's vision and values and serves as leadership role model. Provides strategy and leadership to the department with the objective of optimize business end results. Will support the performance monitoring of purchased materials focused on quality, cost-effective, cycle time, reliable, and efficient use of goods. Evidence compiled will be provided to purchasing and suppliers for improvement. Projects will deliver customer satisfaction and achieve site volume build, improve manufacturability of products, equipment availability and enhance regulatory compliance while meeting division and corporate goals. Manage team of resources supporting manufacturing operations in partnering with multiple teams to design, deliver, qualify and validate projects for efficient and world class manufacturing methods.**What You’ll Do*** Responsible to manage and provide direction to a team to ensure materials are available and efficiently utilized, and manufacturing equipment are up and running supporting manufacturing production effort.* Responsible for technical leadership of the site. Responsible for product knowledge, materials, and process understanding.* Responsible for Continuous Improvement Projects generation, design and execution, including both productivity, materials specifications improvements, and cost improvement projects* Responsible for product/material yield, scrap analysis and resolution of yield related events.* Perform risk assessment of materials, process, and equipment to prevent possible disruptions to supply chain operations from supplier to customer.* Responsible for resolution of complex problem solving related to materials, product and process. Including statistical data analysis. •* Lead materials related savings projects, from initiation to execution and report out.* Select and manage relationship with major suppliers, vendors, or subcontractors to ensure the organization received satisfactory standards of materials, products and services, in accordance to specs* Assures compliance of subordinates to all policies and procedures concerning all areas of the Quality System, environmental, regulatory, safety and human resources.* Interfaces with other plant areas or divisional organizations in the implementations of cost reduction projects, process understanding and trouble shooting in relation to the plant processes. •* Cultivate internal and external network of resources to complete tasks. Mirror role working hand to hand with Purchasing area. This role is a technical extension that facilitates site procurement activities and technical liaison with suppliers. •* Assists site management team to support projects execution, including methodology to process engineering to gain supply chain optimization.* Utilize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, including SAP, Viewpoint, SharePoint, and CATS WEB.* Mentors' employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.* Initiates, suggests, supports and implements actions to maximize profits by containing expenses through improved operations, new products transfers, improved material selection, and plant's facilities and equipment capacity studies.**Required Qualifications*** Bachelor's Degree Engineering, MBA desirable.* Minimum 8 years related work experience in manufacturing and engineering area.* Experience supervising team.* Excellent communication skills in both: English and Spanish.* Computer literate. Microsoft Office.* Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated ability to effectively lead in a team environment, adaptable to change, able to manage competing priorities, analytical and problem-solving skills.* Project management and Supply Chain experience can be beneficial at the role.* Exposure to risk assessments, materials specs and compositions, suppliers' negotiations at product specs level, supplier and site manufacturing processes, cost/benefits and material usage analysis, planning and forecasting, identification of market factors affecting materials interactions with product are desired skills for the incumbent.Apply nowFollow 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 on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.**The base pay for this position is**$88,700.00 – $177,300.00
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