Project Engineer - Sturgis, MI Plant

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Plans and conducts assigned small? to medium?size projects within an engineering specialty using conventional plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Coordinates and monitors project activities, reviews plans, and tracks implementation status for assigned work.
• Makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within the discipline.
• Employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns, e.g., tracking actual expenditures vs. projected cash flow.
• Facilitates defining project scope with clients.
• Estimates needed resources (budget, time, materials, people) for individual tasks, e.g., coordinating work with associate engineers and technicians.
• Prepares project budgets and contingency plans.
• Participates in feasibility studies and economic analyses for alternatives.
• Shares responsibility for achieving financial targets in support of business objectives.

TECHNICAL / DESIGN

• Anticipates future directions through internal and external benchmarking.
• Recognizes changes in environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities.
• Prepares for such changes, e.g., initiates plans to acquire engineering skills needed due to technology shifts.
• Independently applies standard engineering concepts, theories, and techniques to design products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities.
• Conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, investigates issues, performs preliminary analyses, and reports findings.
• Prepares recommendations and communicates action plans.

PROBLEM SOLVING / INNOVATION

• Creates or modifies designs for intermediate problems and more complex components/processes.
• Writes detailed design specifications, e.g., new production flow diagrams or modifications to enhance construction processes.
• Predicts trends/patterns, identifies relationships among data, grasps complexities, and evaluates consequences and alternatives.
• Makes recommendations, e.g., developing manufacturing process improvements.
• Analyzes problems from multiple perspectives and improves methods/processes/designs.
• Implements innovations, good ideas, and cost?reduction measures.
• Generates and adopts original solutions, reducing them to practice, e.g., implementing methods to reduce component costs.
• Creatively applies design ideas from others.

ORGANIZATIONAL INTERFACE

• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise, guidance, and feedback.
• Interfaces primarily with internal contacts (Regulatory, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain).
• Communicates frequently with outside and inter?organizational contacts from the assigned TPM group.
• Prepares written communications and conveys information effectively through formal and informal documents with team members, designers, technicians, and other technical personnel.
• Uses appropriate communication protocols, e.g., developing proposals and conducting design reviews.
• Provides audience?specific content and prepares summaries and design documentation.
• Obtains approvals for action plans.
• Establishes networks, follows through on goals, shares knowledge/resources, and collaborates effectively, e.g., in team meetings.
• Serves as a functional expert during design reviews.
• Builds strong relationships by initiating open, honest communication, understanding needs, promoting common goals, and following through on commitments, e.g., offering assistance.
• Interacts effectively with stakeholders at appropriate organizational levels.
• Resolves underlying issues, identifies full customer/client needs, and proposes solutions.
• Adjusts products or services to better meet recognized or unrecognized needs, e.g., partnering with external vendors for improved deliverables.

COMPLIANCE

• Complies with all applicable standards and regulations for Quality, Environmental, Health, Safety, and Energy (EHS&E), Abbott Engineering Standards, and other governance areas.
• Ensures quality and effectiveness of assigned tasks.
• Maintains awareness of defects or failure?mode consequences related to design changes in established processes.
• Identifies compliance?related risks.
• Initiates and tracks Quality System Change Requests for assigned projects.
• Communicates requirements to external organizations based on Impact Assessments.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE

• Develops standards and procedures.
• Coordinates with technical support staff for prototype or experimental product/process runs.
• Directs efforts of external resources and technicians.
• Writes Requests for Capital Expenditures (RCEs), scope documents, safety/quality checklists, etc.
• Develops and executes validation protocols.
• Resolves issues such as vendor deviations, production process deviations, urgent out?of?stock replacements, and crisis situations requiring rapid and informed decisions.
• Provides training on systems.

You?ll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA and Abbott policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor?s Degree in Engineering, science or closely related discipline, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence
• 4+ years industrial experience
• Exposure to manufacturing processes as it applies to multi-component assembly operations.
• Exposure to supplied material manufactured from external suppliers.
• Experience troubleshooting such processes to find solutions related to productivity, quality and product performance.
• Exposure to Six Sigma Green Belt techniques with the DMAIC process to find/implement root cause remediations.
• Regulated industry experience to document all actions involving changes to established processes.

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