Manufacturing Engineer

Title: Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Duration: 12 months on W2 (100% Onsite)

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assigned line output, safety, yield, and quality.
• Identify product defects and determine operational and process actions to reduce them.
• Troubleshoot equipment and submit work order requests.
• Work with QC Supervisor, Manufacturing Supervisor, Quality Engineer, and Operations to triage on-line issues, determine non-conformance, bracketing, containment, and generate corrective/preventive actions.
• Maintain product and process knowledge, understanding the cause and effect of line changes.
• Provide engineering fixes, such as tooling (TLTs) and manufacturing aids, from idea definition to implementation.
• Understand procedures related to equipment controls.
• Support technicians and supervisors in resolving equipment availability issues.
• Determine quality impact of Out-of-Tolerance documents.
• Execute change management processes for material, equipment, and process changes.
• Generate CO and CR related to moderate to complex changes impacting manufacturing.
• Support external and internal audits.
• Lead continuous improvement projects, including CAPA implementations.
• Evaluate and execute improvement ideas.
• Conduct process studies and validations.
• Serve as Manufacturing Engineering representative for projects related to yield, productivity, quality, and safety.
• Perform statistical analysis for complex events.
• Generate qualification and validation protocols and reports with minimal oversight.
• Own CR activities from basic to high complexity with no oversight.
• Understand regulatory implications of proposed changes.
• Determine change types requiring filings and complete supporting documentation with oversight.
• Consider risk mitigation strategies based on lessons learned.
• Review previous similar projects to inform decision-making.
• Anticipate potential issues affecting timelines and resolve them proactively.
• Present information and collaborate across functions internally and externally.
• Engage in cross-functional management communications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• Comprehensive understanding of relevant regulations.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in most engineering matters.
• Minimal oversight required for moderately difficult assignments.
• Strong ability to plan, execute, and communicate across functional areas.

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

 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, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.