Staff R&D Engineer at Abbott Laboratories

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.

Working at Abbott

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. You’ll 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 FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Abbott provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of cardiovascular disease. Our extensive Structural Interventions portfolio (the Amplatzer portfolio) includes atrial and ventricular septal defect closure devices, PFO/LAA devices, and PDA closure devices. We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative, experienced, collaborative, and technically strong engineer to join our winning team!

As a Staff Sustaining R&D Engineer at our Plymouth, MN location, you will be a leader within our Structural Interventions team focused on providing R&D support a wide range of market-released cardiac occluder devices (including our Amplatzer branded devices), delivery systems, and accessories. This role will involve a range of responsibilities including but not limited to failure analysis, CAPA, design changes, R&D support for supplier change requests, requirement development, testing and data analysis, and test method development and validation.

What you will do:

As a Staff Sustaining R&D Engineer at our Plymouth, MN location, you will be a leader within our Structural Interventions team focused on providing R&D support a wide range of market-released cardiac occluder devices (including our Amplatzer branded devices), delivery systems, and accessories. This role will involve a range of responsibilities including but not limited to failure analysis, CAPA, design changes, R&D support for supplier change requests, requirement development, testing and data analysis, and test method development and validation. 

What You’ll Work On

· Provides R&D support for market-released cardiac occluders, delivery systems, and accessories

· Conducts feasibility studies to verify capability and functionality to support investigations and/or design changes

· Develops solutions to improve product function and manufacturability

· Directs support personnel and coordinates project activities

· Write and submit Engineering Change orders

· Maintains detailed documentation throughout all phases of a project

· Investigates and evaluates design changes, manufacturing changes, NCMRs, CAPAs and/or customer complaints

· Reviews or coordinates vendor activities to support development

· Research various cost-effective, alternative approaches to current designs and processes

· Involved in test method and fixture development

· Support development of risk management documentation (DFMEA, UFMEA, PFMEA)

· Gain an understanding of the quality and regulatory requirements of Abbott, FDA and ISO regulations

· Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.

· Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors

· Performs other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical or related Engineering degree

· 8+ years medical device engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

· Exposure to a variety of manufacturing processes used in medical devices, specifically deflectable sheaths and/or EP Catheters preferred

· Worked with an electronic document control system (Windchill, etc.)

· Solidworks or other CAD experience

· Previous academic GPA: 3.0 or higher preferred

· Experience working within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

· Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate to all levels of the organization

· Proficient in collaborating with project stakeholders (client and internal), end-users, business partners, and technical team members

· Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner

· Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail

· Experience working with cross-functional teams in a geographically diverse, matrixed organization

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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.

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The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.