Manufacturing Systems Engineer

at  Abbott Laboratories

At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical, Biomedical, or Software), or related discipline
• 3+ years of in a similar position, including systems integration experience/integrating all system components (electrical, mechanical, software), system architecture, requirement/user need gathering
• Experience in application development and deployment (e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, VB.net, SQL Server)
• Experience in software testing, verification, and validation
• Experience with querying SQL databases
• Experience with data historians
• Familiarity with 21 CFR Part 820 and Part 11 guidelines
• Good problem-solving abilities – able to identify facts, consider alternative approaches and evaluate the most appropriate action
• Experience working in a validated environment with strong discipline regarding change control is preferred

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical, Biomedical, or Software), or related discipline
• Experience working in the medical device industry
• Experience with OSI PI
• Experience with line controllers, PLC, SCADA, MES systems
• Cyber Security experience

• Technical expert for data and manufacturing operations management systems
• Implement, and validate new software systems for real-time data acquisition from the production machinery and laboratory processes
• Implement and validate Oracle databases for data storage
• Identify and deliver systems for both PC and PLC backup and recovery
• Undertake cyber security risk analysis and manage programs to raise the maturity level for cyber security at the operational technology layer
• Define roadmap and manage periodic updating of operating systems
• Work with Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer, controls engineers, vision engineers and OEM manufactures to continuously improve processes and standards in line with business needs