Project Engineer

Abbott Laboratories • Princeton, NJ

8d • $61,300 - $122,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Project Engineer
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a high employer contribution.
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Princeton, NJ location in the Abbott Point of Care Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
The Project Engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Responsible for conducting investigations of analyzers, manuals, and product software and. Draws on in-depth knowledge of APOC platforms, and Abbott Point of Care quality procedures in performing investigations. Reviews investigation test data and relates findings to impact on patient results, and customer use of the product, and impact to product, product documentation, and claims. Interfaces with senior level management in obtaining appropriate information and resources required to resolve investigation issues. Detect patterns and identify issues related to product issues trends. Creates in-depth documentation detailing the investigation summaries and conclusions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a science and/or engineering discipline.
• Associate’s degree (± 13 years)

Nice To Haves

• ASQ certification
• Advanced degree a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Conduct thorough investigation to determine root cause of the complaint analyzer manuals, and product software issue.
• Document the investigation outcome in a clear, and concise manner and in compliance with guiding procedures.
• Reviews and approves investigation documentation and data with little or no supervision, using manager as a resource.
• Meet with senior level staff to obtain information/documentation needed for complaint investigations.
• Interfaces with Safety Regulatory Agencies as required ensuring compliant product is released.
• Provides quality engineering support to the site to ensure manufacturing/quality requirements are met.
• Lead/Assist in writing, executing, and analyzing various types of protocols (i.e., engineering studies, verification protocols,
• validation, etc.).
• Provides assistance or lead projects as assigned.
• Reduces and controls manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by assisting.
• efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Help ensure that Division projects meet scheduled dates and are compliant with the regulations.

Benefits

• 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 a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level