System Engineer

Abbott • Des Plaines, IL

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 Des Plaines, IL location in the Molecular Division. Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level. We have an exciting opportunity for a System Engineer within our Engineering team on site in Des Plaines. As part of the On-Market Instrument Support team for Alinity m, the System Engineer will primarily focus on refurbishment projects intended to repair and reuse high-cost parts. Additionally, the System Engineer will support, contribute and execute on-market improvements, create and execute test protocols. This position will ensure that projects progress as planned, meet their goals and requirements and provide guidance to technical reliability issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area, or Master's degree with 0-2 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical or similar engineering function
• Experience in regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Refurbishment of high-cost parts to drive GMI savings.
• Establishment of processes and procedures to outline refurbishment activities.
• Collect, analyze, and verify data and statistically drive project selection, direction and decisions.
• Participate in reliability improvement activities within company, and vendors.
• Contribute to system level design trade off discussions with respects to reliability.
• Drive change with a focus on respect, teamwork, collaboration and commitment.
• Navigate and adhere to the AMD Quality Process for Design Changes and Improvements
• Detailed documentation of experiments, protocols and verification records

Benefits

• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• the Freedom 2 Save student debt program
• FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

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