Facilities Engineer

Abbott Laboratories; Barceloneta (PR); On-site; USD 54,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance (Day 1)

Savings Plan (401K)

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, is seeking a Facilities Engineer to support the AVD Vascular business on-site in the first shift. The role oversees planning, maintenance, and capital projects to ensure reliable facilities and equipment.

You will coordinate preventive maintenance, updates to layouts, and compliance with building and safety codes, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximize efficiency.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering with minimum 2 years of related work experience.
• Familiar with cGMP and cGLP practices.
• Ability to work in a quality system environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of facilities and equipment.
• Plans and coordinates periodic shutdowns to service equipment and prepare for hurricane season.
• Schedules and plans preventative maintenance for facilities and systems.
• Leads facilities projects to maximize efficiency and utilization of space and equipment.
• Maintains facilities operations including utilities and amenities.
• Investigates unplanned events affecting facility operations and initiates corrective actions.

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Job description

Facilities Engineer

This position will support the AVD business and will be based in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. On-site position.

About Abbott

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.

Benefits

• 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

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Barceloneta location in Abbott Vascular and support the first shift; Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. This is an exempt role.

What You’ll Do

• Oversees the planning, design, construction, reconfiguration, maintenance, and alteration of equipment, machinery, buildings, structures, and other facilities.
• Plans and coordinates periodic shutdown to service and maintain equipment, hurricane season preparation activities/planning.
• Responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and planning preventative maintenance, repairs and services for facilities, equipment, systems and building.
• Lead and support facilities/maintenance projects to maximize efficiency and utilization of facilities and equipment.
• Responsible for maintaining facilities operation including facilities equipment, areas conditions, utilities, and amenities.
• Investigate unplanned events affecting facility operations and takes appropriate corrective and preventive actions to preclude recurrence.
• Develops criteria and performance specifications for facilities and equipment required to meet unique operating requirements and building and safety codes.
• Assists in development and maintenance of short-term and long-term facilities plan.
• May be responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and planning preventative maintenance for facilities, equipment, pest control services.
• Prepares bid sheets, scope of work and contracts for construction, maintenance and facilities services.
• Responsible for maintaining updated plant, office and production equipment layouts/engineering drawings and ensure compliance with standards and regulations.
• Reviews and estimates design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs.
• Follows diverse procedures and problems require consideration of many different approaches. Solutions are selected from alternatives using past experience.
• Facilities and equipment emergency repairs to maintain site operations or area conditions.
• Determines own priorities and may deviate from established procedures.
• Monitoring of work results is usually indirect.
• When assigned work, provided guidance on results expected and timeline.
• Task prioritization.
• Planning and coordination activities pertaining to facilities department.
• Decisions on contracting, managing, and planning of design, construction, and maintenance services for Facilities and Equipment.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
• Experience with cGMP and cGLP practices and projects preferred.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of significant scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a good knowledge of technical alternatives and a strong understanding of facilities and utilities systems and how they impact the environment.

Employment Details

Job family: Facilities & Maintenance

Division: AVD Vascular

Location: Puerto Rico > Barceloneta : PR-17

Additional locations:

Work shift: Standard

Travel: No

Medical Surveillance: No

Significant work activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day)

Salary

The base pay for this position is $54,300.00 – $109,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Equal Opportunity & EEO statements

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

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