Senior Mechanical Engineer

Abbott • Irving, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. This position works out of our Irving, TX (LC 02) location in the Core Diagnostics team. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is 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.

Requirements

• Associate Degree plus 7 years exp
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or closely related STEM field plus 5 years is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Ability to multi-task across multiple projects in various stages of developments.
• Proficient with Solidworks, Siemen’s Team Center (APLM), and Solutions Business Manager (SBM)
• Understands aspects of Design Planning, CR creation/workflow, and ability to write Description/Reason/Justification (DRJ) statements in support of drawing releases.
• Experience with cable design, specification creation, and implementation in 3D model assemblies.
• Strong Project Management and workload organization skills.
• Experience conducting engineering studies and validations, including data analysis using statistically sound methodology and authoring technical reports.
• Ability to design engineering test methods.
• Demonstrated expertise and proficiency with design and trouble shooting.
• Experience leading cross-functional risk assessments for new products or process changes.
• Deep understanding of equipment functionality.
• CAD 3D modeling experience.
• Analytical design, Design for Six Sigma, or similar tool.
• Ability to travel for business purposes on a limited basis.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of new and existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and tools.
• Apply engineering and scientific principles to evaluate and solve technical challenges.
• Design, verify, and validate medical devices per internal procedures and regulatory standards.
• Apply empirical, numerical, and experimental analyses to evaluate designs.
• Select appropriate materials, components, processes, and technologies for subsystems.
• Define analytical and experimental approaches to assess design performance.
• Develop test methods and simulation models to reduce design risk and ensure reliability.
• Stay current with technical advancements and continuously build skills.
• Create and maintain documentation (specs, schematics, layouts) for design release and control.
• Develop and execute test methods for design checkout and verification of subassemblies.
• Documents subsystem products, tools, fixtures, and prototypes with specifications, schematics and layouts for documentation control and release.
• Uses root cause analysis (RCA) tools and techniques to troubleshoot complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
• Provides written technical justifications and rationales for complex parts and sub-assembly designs.
• Provides input into risk management documentation including dFMEA, pFMEA and risk analyses.
• Identifies and mitigates sub-assembly design risks.
• Achieves engineering tasks per established timelines.
• Provide recommendations to improve products, processes, and/or design tools to be employed for investigation and design development.
• Leads project discussions and sets direction for assigned projects across cross-functional team.
• Assist other Engineers by performing peer review of design and technical design review documentation.
• May act as Independent Reviewer for Design Plans and lead small project teams and/or mentor junior level engineers.
• Ability to implement design features as a part of new and existing components and subassemblies.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees