DirecciónAbout Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Ottawa, Ontario location in the 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.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.
This role is located at our Ottawa office, in this position you will manage the Supplier Engineering team with a focus on injection molding tool design, project management, metrology, supplier management, and non-plastic component sustaining support. You will be managing a team responsible for maintaining plastic drawings/models and non-plastic material specifications, managing metrology, and supplier management and relationships. Additionally, you will own project timelines and deliverables, budget, and expenditures. You will lead supplier interactions, drive technical decisions on tooling designs and other non-plastic components. You will partner with various internal stakeholders and quality teams to ensure a robust supply of all components while reducing distressed inventory, and limit variation across all components and packaging portfolios. You will also leverage product knowledge to act as the SME (Subject Matter Expert) for our plastic design, and provide sustaining support on all non-plastic components, drive supplier improvement and develop junior team members.
What You’ll Do
Understand the business needs of the company and have a thorough understanding of customer and clinical needs as they relate to projects.
Lead and/or participate on cross-functional teams to support organizational goals.
Develop supplier relationships and new supplier selection.
Conceptualize complete solutions, create or coordinate the design solutions for novel or complex problems; explore multiple alternatives.
Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) or independent technical expert (ITE) on a project’s technical matters; may interface with senior management, external firms or agencies, may coordinate technical matters between organizations.
Lead and participate in team goal setting.
Understand and comply with applicable EH&S policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
Responsible for implementing and maintaining effectiveness of Quality System.
Other miscellaneous duties and responsibilities as may be required.
Required Qualifications
Minimum 10 years in an engineering role.
In-depth knowledge of the injection molding process and methodology, injection molding tooling and process design.
Minimum 3 years people management experience.
Bachelor’s Degree (Science, Engineering or equivalent) required, master’s degree is an asset.
Experience in two shot injection molding or polymer science preferred.
Strong working knowledge of the many components that make up the final cartridge, manufacturing processes and applications.
Have a strong ability to communicate with suppliers and senior leaders of the business.
Ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder projects.
Knowledge and experience in manufacturing process control.
Experience using SolidWorks or equivalent CAD software.
Solid understanding of technical drawings, interpretation of specification and tolerances.
Ability to lead a team of diverse experience levels in the completion of complex projects.
Demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills.
Ability to prioritize team deliverables in high pressure situations.
Strong organizational and project management skills
Ability or aptitude to provide solutions and contingency plans through the comprehensive review of alternatives.
Ability to quickly gain knowledge, understanding or skills and willingness to learn.
Trained or certified in Lean Six Sigma is an asset.
Abbott Canada is committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of individuals without discrimination based on factors such as race, sex, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, age, citizenship, family or marital status, political beliefs, sexual preference or other factors included in human rights legislation.
Our diversity goals for recruitment, hiring, and retention are embedded in our corporate goals, and our diversity initiatives are supported by the highest level of the organization.
We strongly believe that a diverse workforce fosters more creative and innovative thinking throughout the organization. Creating an inclusive environment, where everyone is respected and valued, enables us to leverage our diversity as a business driver and strengthens our position as a global leader.
Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive, high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbott’s success.
