Senior Technical Engineer

About Abbott

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Main Purpose of the Role

Applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline, with little to no supervision.
Maintains general knowledge of other related disciplines beyond specific technical field/discipline of focus.

Main Responsibilities

• Independently plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.

• Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and meets deadlines by establishing and tracking schedules, working with internal and outside staff to maintain schedules and manage execution to plan.

• Maintains project controls and reporting for cost, scope and schedule, developing and implementing the execution strategy while balancing multiple demands.

• Independently performs economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives, taking responsibility for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives.

• Benchmarks internally and externally, drawing upon a variety of data/insights to anticipate and plan for future directions.

• Actively evaluates and monitors environmental changes, responding to indicators of future problems and/or opportunities, and preparing for those potential scenarios

• Independently executes, and/or directs others in the execution of, the design of products/processes/ equipment /systems/facilities by applying new engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.

• Designs and leads complex experiments, often with multiple variables, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis, reports findings and communicates recommendations and action plans to a diversity of stakeholder audiences occupying different levels of authority/influence.

• Creates/modifies designs for intermediate problems, including designing and modifying more complex components/processes, and writing detailed design specifications.

• Leads the collection and analysis of data, looking for relationships/patterns/trends to identify insights and propose solutions/recommendations to pursue opportunities and/or solve problems.

• Analyzes complex interdisciplinary problems and identifies their impact, tests hypotheses, establishes probabilities, draws conclusions reflecting broad business needs and provides recommendations by weighing organizational and financial impacts.

• Implements improvements to methods, designs and processes, proactively sharing and driving the adoption of new ideas and best practices to reduce cost and optimize efficiencies/effectiveness

• Communicates with a wide variety of stakeholder types and levels using formal and informal media, based on the needs and priorities of the audience"

• Builds open, honest, collaborative with a network of colleagues, contractors and vendors by developing an understanding of others’ needs, promoting common goals, and following through on commitments.

• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance within the team and to cross-functional partners

• Provides mentoring in technical and organizational areas within work group, monitoring, assessing and facilitating the development of other engineer(s)

Education and competencies required

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence

• Minimum 5 years’ significant engineering, project management and / or operational experience

• Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

• Listens to and understands others’ points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one’s own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.

• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.

• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.

• Technical or Engineering background in medical devices, pharmaceutical or other regulated sector is preferred. Backgrounds in other areas are considered as applicable.

• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control.

• Understanding of procurement & contracting processes

This job description is not to be considered an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or requirements and does not limit the assignment of additional duties for this role."