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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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are 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.

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’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 high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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 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

Our location in Lake Forest, North Chicago IL has an opening for a Principal Molding Engineer position. This person will be Responsible for independently performing and overseeing tasks related to the execution of new and existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and tools. Applies advanced multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to design and develop innovative medical devices and complex subsystems in support of business strategies. Provide broad technical leadership and effective engineering solutions in area of expertise. Executes continuous quality improvement and is the technical lead for subsystem and/or instrument projects. Provides training and/or mentorship to other engineers.

What You’ll Work On

• Leads the development of designs for new and existing systems in accordance with applicable procedures and medical regulatory standards, performs analysis on design concepts, and tests theories to reduce risks.

• Demonstrated success in the ability to specify, design, verify and validate new medical devices to meet user needs.

• Uses extensive understanding of processes used in design and manufacturing to develop and execute new medical devices, processes, equipment, materials, verification, and validation.

• Uses experimental, empirical, and numerical analyses to evaluate designs.

• Performs engineering analysis with simulation tools to mitigate design risks and ensure new design reliability.

• Leads test method and simulation model development.

• Assists in the development of site engineering and technical guidance and standards.

• Establishes technical competence. Identify and mitigate project and site product line risks.

• Leads the development of product specifications, FMEAs, DOEs, verification and validation protocols and plans.

• Recommend and implement Design Control procedures for development in accordance with FDA guidelines.

• Recommend improvements to Design Control and other quality process and procedures.

• Applies theoretical principles, evaluation, ingenuity and creative / analytical techniques for assessment across sub-system level designs.

• Apply advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) tools and techniques to troubleshoot multiple sub-system designs.

• Provides written technical justifications and rationale for multiple sub-system designs.

• Manages risk management documentation including dFMEA, pFMEA and risk analyses. Identifies and mitigates design risks for multiple sub-systems.

• Use knowledge of engineering and cross-functional tasks and establishes overall engineering schedule.

• Achieves engineering tasks per established timelines.

• Provides ideas for process improvements that drive engineering task efficiencies.

• Develops products, processes, and/or design tools to be employed for investigation and design development within organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering field preferably Chemical Engineering or Industrial Engineering

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience

• Demonstrated product experience and technical leadership for a subsystem.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong aptitude / attention to detail / Verbal and written communication skills

• Independent initiative, anticipatory mindset, and problem-solving skills

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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 $97,300.00 – $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com