Senior OpEx Engineer - Queretaro site

Abbott; Santiago de Querétaro; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is building a manufacturing facility in Querétaro and seeks an experienced operational excellence professional to drive Lean and Six Sigma initiatives. You will lead process improvements, optimize capacity and cycle times, and collaborate with site teams to enhance customer satisfaction.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in relevant industries, with knowledge of DMAIC and GMP standards. Strong project leadership and change management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Education: bachelor’s in science, Engineering, administration, or similar careers.
• +5 years of experience, preferably in medical devices, pharmaceutical, automotive, or electronics industries.
• Operational excellence concepts such as line balance, constraint theory, process flow map, and continuous improvement tools (DMAIC, fishbone, 5 Whys). Knowledge of ISO/FDA and GMPs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate overall layout and space utilization analysis for short and long term planning.
• Maintain direct labor planning to support year-over-year demands and establish labor standards.
• Lead tactical process improvement projects aligned with site goals and objectives.
• Evaluate processes to identify productivity and efficiency gains for growth.
• Lead projects using Lean, Six Sigma, CI, OpEx, or related tools and estimate resource needs.
• Support 5S activities in manufacturing and support areas.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing systems to measure KPIs and support MOR/MOS reviews.
• Generate and share project status reports and KPI summaries for management.

Skills

Lean principles

Six Sigma

DMAIC

CI / OpEx

Process improvement

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in science/Engineering/Administration

Tools

KPI tracking

MOR / MOS

Job description

About Abbott

Abbott, global leading healthcare company, is investing in Mexico. We are building a manufacturing facility in Querétaro.

About Abbott

Abbott, global leading healthcare company, is investing in Mexico. We are building a manufacturing facility in Querétaro. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. This facility will offer 1,200 local new jobs and will be the first health manufacturing facility in Querétaro (pioneers for healthcare Hub).

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.


• 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.

Job Purpose

This position is responsible, under general direction, for the execution of business operational excellence initiatives. The role leads strategic, process improvement projects in conjunction with site goals and imperatives for increasing revenue, capacity, optimizing cycle time, space utilization, reducing defect rates and improving customer satisfaction. The role is accountable for delivering tactical results from the application of Lean, OpEx/Continuous improvement, 6σ methodologies and effective change management.

Knowledge, Experience and Education

• Education : bachelor’s in science, Engineering, administration, or similar careers.


• +5 Years of experience, preferred in medical devices, pharmaceutical, automotive, electronic industry.


• Operational excellence/ lean concepts such as line balance, constraint theory, process flow map, continuous improvement tools (DMAIC, fishbone diagram, 5 Whys, etc.) Knowledge of standard regulations applicable to medical industry (ISO, FDA, etc.), GMPs preferred.

Major Accountabilities

• - Coordinate business unit overall layout administration including space utilization optimization analysis for the short and long term. May lead Site Master Plan and Layout Changes Control Forums intended to accomplish a strategic and tactic control of space and capacity utilization of the site and/or business unit


• - Maintain, coordinate and/or calculate business unit direct labor needs to support year over year demands and to establish direct labor standards in coordination with the finance and operations teams.


• - Leads, facilitate tactical process improvement projects in the business unit, delivering tactical results in conjunction with site goals and objectives.


• - Evaluates business processes and determines initiatives that will yield greater productivity and efficiency to enable growth.


• - Leads and/or projects using Lean, 6σ, CI, OpEx, or other tools estimating levels of effort and resource requirements and working with appropriate staff to understand scope


• - May provide support and/or coordinate the implementation of 5s activities in manufacturing and or support areas.


• - May support the development and maintenance of manufacturing systems intended to measure business unit key performance indicators (KPIs), and general platforms such Monthly Operations Review (MOR) and Management Operating Systems (MOS).


• - Generate and share Projects Status reports as well as Support business unit KPIs monthly review helping the organization in consolidating the information to be presented and preparing management summaries

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.