Principal OT Systems Engineer Columbus, OH

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 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Principal Systems Engineer Operational Technology

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Our Nutrition business develops science-based products for people of all agesfrom helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions around the world rely on our leading brands including Similac PediaSure Pedialyte Ensure and Glucerna to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and the FreeU education benefitan affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelors degree.
• Recognition globally as a great place to work and for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus OH in the Nutrition Division. The Principal Systems Engineer Operational Technology will develop deploy and support manufacturing operations data systems across regional supply chain. Provide technical consulting support to Manufacturing Operations and project engineers as required.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Develop Deploy and maintain manufacturing operation data systems including hardware and software.
• Develop regional standard and guideline for implementation and system governance. Data historian visualization and reporting systems (OSI PI Data Historian AF Analytics Vision SEEQ and ZPI)
• Software change management and asset monitoring servers (AssetCentre MDT)Manufacturing Line Control and HMI systems (Ignition)
• Inspection System software database (IQS SeamMate SQL DB)Develop strategy for manufacturing real-time data visualization and reporting needs.
• Deploy manufacturing operations data systems as part of cross-functional capital project delivery team
• Coordinate with internal quality and process authority organizations to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Interface with process and equipment SMEs to ensure effectiveness of auditing and reporting strategies.
• Interface with IT and operations organizations to successfully integrate manufacturing operations data systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and process data reporting systems.
• Managing the design of auditing and reporting solutions for Critical Process Parameters
• Coordination between integrator and site resources to ensure successful delivery and support hand-off of these systems.
• Lead the process for manufacturing software system validation to be compliant with 21CFR part 11.
• Coordinate with IT support team to maintain secured IT infrastructure for manufacturing operation and actively participate in Cyber Security compliance initiatives.
• Anticipate future needs of the business. Benchmark internally and externally.
• Recognize indicators of future opportunities; initiate plans to acquire new skills required by changes in technology
• Integrate financial data with technical data to analyze complex interdisciplinary problems and identifies their impact; establish probabilities; draws conclusions reflecting broad business needs; understand organizational and financial impact of recommendationsMentor others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
• Interface frequently with inter-organizational and outside customer contacts
• Represent the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.
• Prepare written communication. Convey information effectively through formal and informal documents with team members designers technicians and other technical personnel both internal and external to Abbott using appropriate communication protocols.
• Establish networks follow through on project goals; contribute willingly and incorporate the ideas of others; share resources knowledge and accountability to benefit the objectives of the business e.g. participate in team meetings; serve as a functional expert in cross-project design review
• Build relationships initiate and cultivate open honest relationships with colleagues customers contractors and vendors by establishing rapport developing an understanding of others needs promoting common goals and following through on commitments e.g. offers assistance; interact effectively with stakeholders at appropriate levels of the organization
• Resolve underlying problems identify full range of customer/ client needs and propose solutions to address them; make alterations in products or services to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer need e.g. partners with an outside vendor to provide a better through centralized engineering organization.
• Work with limited direction. Independently determine and develop approach to solutions.
• Leads standardization and best practices replicated globally. Require frequent interactions with peers across sites and global regions
• Identify and quantify technical risks and their consequences relative to the success of part of a project; recommends appropriate action e.g. reports calculations and recommendations in terms concrete enough for management to make an informed decision.
• Drives decisions or recommendations would typically achieve department and division objectives.
• Drives functional performance that ensures the highest standards in quality customer service and regulatory compliance are met.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOULL BRING

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or closely related discipline or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence
• 8 years of significant IT engineering and/or operational experience. Demonstrated expertise within the area of manufacturing IT systems.
• Leads diverse groups within engineering and IT and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences
• Has a technical background in health care nutritional products consumer goods pharmaceutical or similar industries (preferred).
• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control.

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The base pay for this position is

$99300.00 $198700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Engineering

ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain

United States > Columbus : 2900 Easton Square Place

Standard

Yes 25 % of the Time

No

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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