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Senior Automion Engineer
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- Career development with an internional company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
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- A company recognized as a gre place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
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The Opportunity
Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important informion for trement and management of diseases and other conditions.
The position of Senior Manufacturing Automion Engineer is within our Infectious Disease Business Unit loced in Scarborough, Maine. This role will be responsible for supporting manufacturing processes, quality/cost savings initiives and implemention of engineering principles while assuring compliance with cGMP quality and safety standards.
Wh You’ll Work On
- Responsible for equipment specificion, acquisition, and implemention.
- Leads automion equipment upgrade efforts reled to safety, obsolescence, and continuous improvement initiives.
- Evalues machine logic, electromechanical and process controls to troubleshoot equipment and drives to resolution.
- Leads teams to identify root cause of manufacturing failures using structured problem solving. Applies root cause fixes to prevent recurrence.
- Conducts failure modes and effects analysis and evalues manufacturing equipment risk.
- Completes complex projects based on comprehensive knowledge of manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Leads design of experiments, validion, completion of testing and analysis of da. Presents da to cross functional teams.
- Drives implemention of new methods or merials for continual improvement of quality and efficiency.
- Analyzes current equipment for process suitability and provides detailed plans for improvement.
- Crees and revises manufacturing documents, specificions, standard opering procedures (SOPs), safety instructions, validion protocols, risk assessments, and procedures and other technical documents to ensure compliant, efficient, and safe procedures.
- Leads other engineers and technicians in developing solutions and improvements in merials, equipment, and process as necessary in addition to ensuring continual improvement, safety, and compliance.
- Manages cross-functional project teams and coordine activities.
- Provides training and process expertise for product processing in specific areas such as process development, tooling development, documention, cleaning protocol, process characterizion and validion.
- Inities and leads to resolution of Quality Incidents and CAPA.
- Participes in teams as necessary and mentor's junior engineers and maintenance technicians to ensure continual improvement, safety, and compliance.
- Considers safety, ergonomic, maintenance, and operor impact on manufacturing design.
- Interacts with the local Project Management Office on milestones and project stus updes.
- Participes in site stregy meetings and planning.
- Leads change through Agile PDM.
- Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administrion (FDA) regulions, other regulory requirements, Company policies, opering procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperive communicions and collaborion with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
- Carries out duties in compliance with established business policies and procedures.
- Demonstres commitment to the development, implemention and effectiveness of applicable Quality Processes as per ISO, FDA, and other regulory agencies.
- Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associes th reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices.
- Responsibility to understand and maintain awareness of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job.
- Support department by performing reled tasks as requested.
Core Competencies
- Independently identifies and drives innovive automion solutions to complex technical and operional challenges within diagnostics manufacturing and development environments. Applies systems thinking to improve processes, reliability, scalability, and compliance, while partnering with stakeholders to evalue risks and implement sustainable improvements.
- Effectively manages multiple high‑impact initiives concurrently by prioritizing work across automion development, validion support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement activities. Demonstres strong organizional skills while meeting aggressive timelines in reguled environments.
- Demonstres a high degree of self‑motivion and accountability, taking ownership of automion systems and technical deliverables from concept through deployment and sustainment. Drives personal and team objectives with minimal supervision while serving as a technical resource and mentor to others.
- Clearly communices complex technical concepts, risks, and recommendions to diverse audiences including engineers, quality, manufacturing, IT, and leadership. Produces clear technical documention, protocols, and reports aligned with diagnostic, quality, and regulory requirements.
- Works collaborively across engineering, manufacturing, quality, regulory, and external vendors to deliver compliant automion solutions. Builds trust through technical credibility, respects diverse perspectives, and aligns automion stregies with business and diagnostic product goals.
Technical Competencies
- Demonstres advanced proficiency in industrial automion and control systems, including PLCs, HMIs, robotics, vision systems, sensors, and integred manufacturing equipment used in diagnostics production or laborory environments.
- Applies strong knowledge of fabricion and mechanical principles—including CNC machining, milling, welding, mechanical assemblies, and bolted connections—to support the design, modificion, and integrion of automed systems and test equipment.
- Applies technical knowledge within reguled diagnostics or life sciences environments, ensuring automion solutions align with applicable quality system requirements, validion expections, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
- Utilizes mhemical and stistical concepts such as ANSI/AQL, probability, process capability, and basic stistical analysis to support equipment performance evaluion, test method development, and continuous improvement initiives.
- Interprets complex technical instructions, specificions, and schemics in mhemical, electrical, and mechanical forms. Diagnoses and resolves automion and equipment issues involving multiple abstract and concrete variables.
- Experienced in computer‑aided design (CAD) and manufacturing software to design, review, and modify automed system layouts, mechanical components, and equipment integrions.
- Demonstres proficiency in merials testing, metrology, and measurement systems used to evalue merial properties, system performance, and diagnostic product integrity in automed or semi‑automed processes.
Required Qualificions
- Bachelor's degree (BS) in engineering or equivalent combinion of educion and experience.
- 7+ years engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience in the applicion of lean six sigma principles and the DMAIC approach or a similar structured problem-solving system.
- Proficiency in change management principles and processes.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Prior experience working in a company opering under ISO, FDA, or similar quality systems or regulions.
- Experience working in a GMP, FDA, ISO and USDA reguled environment.
- Experience in cGMP and ISO 13485 regulions and practices.
- Experience in stistical analysis software.
- Experience in Microsoft Suites software. (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, etc.)
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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locions, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
