Senior Mechanical Engineer

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 your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. 

Our Core Diagnostics team is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to provide leadership and technical expertise in support of new and existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and tools. This role involves applying engineering and scientific principles to evaluate and solve technical challenges. The ideal candidate works independently with general supervision on moderately complex projects and assignments and may offer guidance to entry-level engineers. The engineer will play a key role in driving continuous quality improvement across all initiatives and be a technical lead for individua projects (component/subassembly).

Responsibilities

• Specify, design, verify and validate new and existing medical devices, in accordance with applicable procedures and medical regulatory standards. 
• Demonstrated success in utilizing empirical, numerical and experimental analysis to analyze designs.
• Uses experience to select appropriate materials, components, processes and technologies for subsystems.
• Utilizes knowledge and experience to define experimental, empirical and numerical analyses to evaluate designs.
• Select and develop test methods and simulation models to mitigate design risks and ensure new design reliability for subsystems.
• Remains abreast of and consults on technical advancements  and continually develops skills.
• Documents subsystem products, tools, fixtures, and prototypes with specifications, schematics and layouts for documentation control and release.
• Develops and selects appropriate test methods for engineering design checkout and verification for subassembly.
• Designs and develops a variety of prototypes, tools, fixtures and subsystem test stands used for research and development purposes.
• Utilize Design for Manufacturability experience to select and define specifications and processes.
• Applies theoretical principles, evaluation, ingenuity and creative / analytical techniques for assessment of complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
• Uses root cause analysis (RCA) tools and techniques to troubleshoot complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
• Provides written technical justifications and rationales for complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
• Provides input into risk management documentation including dFMEA, pFMEA and risk analyses.  Identifies and mitigates sub-assembly design risks.
• Uses knowledge of engineering tasks and establishes task timing and duration.
• Achieves engineering tasks per established timelines.
• Provide recommendations to improve products, processes, and/or design tools to be employed for investigation and design development.
• Leads project discussions and sets direction for assigned projects across cross-functional team.
• Assist other Engineers by performing peer review of design and technical design review documentation.
• May act as Independent Reviewer for Design Plans and lead small project teams and/or mentor junior level engineers.
• Applies advanced engineering/scientific principles and tools to the evaluation and solution of technical problems with demonstrated attention to detail. 
• Ability to implement design features as a part of new and existing components and subassemblies.
• Analytical design, Design for Six Sigma, or similar tool.  Advanced skill set for problem solving using analytical methods.
• May include limited travel, including internationally.

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or closely related STEM field
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• CAD 3D modeling experience.
• This role is not a remote role, this individual must sit onsite at our Irving, Texas office

Preferred

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Ability to multi-task across multiple projects in various stages of developments.
• Proficient with Solidworks, Siemen’s Team Center (APLM), and Solutions Business Manager (SBM)
• Understands aspects of Design Planning, CR creation/workflow, and ability to write Description/Reason/Justification (DRJ) statements in support of drawing releases.
• Experience with cable design, specification creation, and implementation in 3D model assemblies.
• Strong Project Management and workload organization skills.
• Experience conducting engineering studies and validations, including data analysis using statistically sound methodology and authoring technical reports.
• Ability to design engineering test methods.
• Demonstrated expertise and proficiency with design and trouble shooting.                                     
• Experience leading cross-functional risk assessments for new products or process changes.               
• Deep understanding of equipment functionality.
• Ability to understand regulations and regulatory environment.

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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.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.