Engineer, Associate Point of Care (Ottawa)

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.

As a Shift Engineer in the Wafer Fab Manufacturing Team you will contribute to the teams success by supporting manufacturing operations to ensure optimal throughput yield and quality of chips produced using wafer fabrication equipment and processes.

Shift: 4X4 days shift rotating four days on four days off from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm

Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas including Chemistry Electrolytes Hematology Blood Gases Coagulation Endocrinology Cardiac Markers Neurology and Informatics. As an Engineer Associate in the Product Engineering group your main responsibilities will include focusing on product yield and product related improvements.

What Youll Do

• Monitoring of critical process parameters critical-to-quality attributes process and product yield
• Development documentation and implementation of reaction schemes to manage equipment and process excursions and trends
• Identification development and implementation of process capability improvements
• Investigations into product and process problems including root cause analysis
• Investigations into non-conformances and documentation of findings and Corrective/Preventative Actions in Quality Reports
• Consistent application of Quality Systems requirements and procedures
• Effective communication with operators equipment technologists group members of related areas and managers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Science or Engineering
• Ability to design experiments analyze and interpret data and document conclusions; experience using statistical methods
• Analytical skills creativity and innovative approach to problem solving
• Ability to determine required analysis to make practical objective decisions about the best solutions to problems
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills; able to deal effectively with people on all organizational levels and work in a team environment across departments
• Familiarity with GMP and LEAN Six Sigma manufacturing principles is an asset
• Familiarity with any of the following is an asset: process engineering wafer fabrication equipment automated processing equipment dispense technology statistical process control ISO/FDA regulations risk management/FMEA methods root cause analysis (6Ms/ 5 Whys) machine vision and statistical software packages such as Minitab and SAS JMP
• Enthusiasm and propensity to continuous learning and experimentation
• Resourcefulness ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to employee diversity. Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbotts success.

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