Engineering Manager

Abbott Laboratories; Barceloneta (PR); On-site; USD 89,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401K with company match

Life insurance

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Education Assistance

Employee Assistance Program

Vacation

Sick

Personal Days

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Medical Devices, Vascular manufacturing site. You will drive sourcing, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize performance and quality across the plant.

The role requires 8+ years in manufacturing/engineering, strong leadership, and bilingual English/Spanish communication. On-site position with comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required; MBA desirable.
• 8+ years in manufacturing/engineering with supervisory experience.
• Excellent communication in English and Spanish.
• Strong leadership and team-management abilities.
• Experience with ERP, SAP, and supplier performance management.
• Knowledge of risk assessment, materials specs, and cost-improvement projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct a manufacturing materials and equipment readiness team.
• Provide technical site leadership with product knowledge and process understanding.
• Drive continuous improvement projects for productivity and cost savings.
• Manage supplier relationships to ensure quality and on-time delivery.
• Utilize ERP systems (SAP, Viewpoint, SharePoint, CATS WEB) to monitor performance.
• Ensure compliance with Quality System, regulatory, safety and HR policies.
• Mentor employees and provide feedback.
• Support site management in project execution and process engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Bilingual English/Spanish

Project management

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Supply chain experience

Risk assessment experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA desirable

Tools

SAP

Viewpoint

SharePoint

CATS WEB

Job description

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.

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:

• 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.

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.

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.

The base pay for this position is $88,700.00 – $177,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Id 31153047 LocationPuerto Rico - Barceloneta Medical surveillance No Division AVD Vascular Travel Yes, 20 % of the Time Additional LocationSignificant work activities Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. EEO (ENGLISH) EEO (SPANISH) PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION We provide reasonable workplace accommodations. U.S. residents only: To request accommodation, please call 224-667-0340or email [e-mail]. Abbott is committed to pay equity and transparency. Compensation is determined using objective, job-related, and gender-neutral criteria in compliance with applicable laws and local regulations.