Manufacturing 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

Purpose Statement

Provides support to the manufacturingorganisation to facilitate efficient operations within the production area, to optimise existing processes, and to ensure that production goals are met. Monitors performance of equipment, machines and tools and corrects equipment problems or process parameters that produce non- conforming products, low yields or product quality issues.

Interfaces with research and development organisations to integrate

new products or processes into the existing manufacturing area.

Key Responsibilities :

• Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources (HR).
• Develops direct reports (if applicable) by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Monitors daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to lower-level supervisors, experienced exempt employees, or skilled non-exempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organisational unit.
• Contributes to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organisational unit.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (for example (e.g.) compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), British Standards Institution (BSI) , Equal Employment Opportunities regulations etcetera (etc.)).
• Monitors internal and external indicators by reviewing reports and newsletters, reading organisational literature, meeting with peers and reading departmental reports.
• Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budget through regular analysis of cost and spending.
• Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol / report writing and managing execution of validation activities.

Education and Job Skills :

1. (Experience / Education) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline and 6+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

2. (Technical / Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Monitors progress of exempt individua ls, team s, supervisors or non-exempt technical individuals toward departmental goals; monitors costs of projects and of human and material

resources within a department or unit; monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility. Will perform this job in a quality system

environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result

in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

3. (Cognitive Skills) Develops and / or identifies new work processes and the improved utilisation of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; facilitate s others involvement in the continuous improvement programme; investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and personnel within the assigned unit.

4. (Influence / Leadership) Promotes the attainment of group goals by selecting, motivating , and training capable staff. Provides leadership to assigned units by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving group objectives.

5. (Planning / Organisation) Schedules human and material resources within a group or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability ; carries out operations within an established budget.

6. (Decision Making / Impact) Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks and objectives; generally makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines regarding work processes or schedules in order to achieve the programme

objectives established by senior management; consequences of erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays to assigned projects or operations with substantial expenditure human resources, and funds, without jeopardising future business activity.

7. (Supervision Received) Works under minimal supervision. Independently determines and develops approach to solutions. Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.

8. (Supervision Provided) Provides direction and guidance to supervisors, experienced exempt and / or skilled non-exempt levels of employees; evaluates performance of and assists in career development planning for subordinates; often responsible for a local functional or process activity.