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.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Abbott is looking for an MES Technical Architect to join the Manufacturing Execution Systems group within the Business Solutions & Services Plan/ Build organization.
This position requires a blend of manufacturing knowledge, technical consulting expertise, and “hands on” builder/implementation skills. The MES Technical Manager is responsible to design and develop manufacturing recipes through POMS software in the IT/OT environment for facilities across Abbott. This role will collaboratively develop, troubleshoot, and maintain a standard MES and automation architecture. A strategic approach and use of Industry standards should be applied with a focus on building re-useable, scalable solutions.

REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is preferred or equivalent plus 8 years technical experience
• 5+ years of hands-on design, development, and deployment of manufacturing systems with an emphasis on Recipe design, development and configuration using Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)
• 5+ years’ experience with C# or Java software development required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with global scale manufacturing systems (POMSNet) development and integration
• Strong skills in methods and technologies to support manufacturing data integrations (SQL, Web Services, data mapping, etc.)
• Knowledge of Oracle Pl/SQL, Label printers, Scanners Configuration and support
• Ability to apply knowledge and expertise to solve complex technical problems
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Knowledge and experience with all phases of Software Lifecycle (SLC) in a GXP environment
• Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ, authoring validation documents and execution

• Works with business units, engineering, and infrastructure teams to design and build recipes and application integrations to align with business objectives.
• Act as subject matter experience with MES and industrial automation.
• Experience implementing robust manufacturing systems and processes
• Strong knowledge of supply chain management or manufacturing processes, having the ability to implement strategies to improve the efficiency of the process
• Understanding of integration between MES, PLM, ERP
• Experience with equipment integration and shop floor systems
• Experience with POMSnet recipe and base data update/creation
• Demonstrate end to end understanding of process flow, able to gather requirements, design, develop and build recipes
• Able to convert the requirements into a process flow and present it to business functions
• Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs
• Support site critical MES enhancement projects, including hardware upgrade, process streamline, architecture upgrade, recipe delivery, and testing coordination.
• Review, validate & enhance design, conduct performance monitoring and capacity planning; install, test and upgrade releases and associated products.
• Follow the Computerized Systems Validation process and Software Lifecycle (SLC) methodology to build and qualify/validate systems.