Director - Division Engineering

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**Director** **- Division Engineering**
ABOUT ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS:
The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbotts life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.
Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation, and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices, and clinics.
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. Youll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
**The Opportunity:**
Our location in **Lake Forest, IL** currently has an opportunity for the **Director** **-** **Division Engineering**
Provide regional technical leadership and engineering services for consumable engineering, equipment, facilities, and utilities, automation equipment to support operations, R&D, new product launches, margin improvement, and ongoing manufacturing & product availability improvements in a compliant, cost-effective, and timely manner. This service is provided to all Core Diagnostics internal and third-party manufacturing sites, as well as to consumable incoming material vendors.
Manage a group of multi-discipline engineers, contract engineers, and technicians, accountable for their performance. Recruit, train, and evaluate the performance of employees.
Establish and drive regional strategies regarding innovation, standardization, and sustainability designed to increase manufacturing reliability, and cost efficiency, while reducing complexity, environmental impact, and improving consistency across the mfg. network.
Establish project objectives and technical criteria for evaluating project results. Ensure that the project time activities are aligned with the project objectives. Assure that all key stakeholders are aligned upfront for project/program kickoff, and are involved in major impact decisions.
**WHAT YOULL DO:**
Lead multi-disciplined engineering teams and projects in good collaboration with site or vendor functions in support of evolving business needs.
Establish and maintain active communications with Core Diagnostics management in Manufacturing, R&D, EH&S, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Operational Excellence, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, and other Abbott business groups to ensure current understanding of their concerns and requirements. Establish goals and plan resources to meet the needs identified through this communication.
Manage capital project budgets for the respective region and drive financial analysis on capital programs with a deep understanding of division and corporate finances. Understand the key business drivers for each capital project and be able to represent that information to senior-level business leaders.
Clearly define issues and opportunities to develop cost-effective business and facility solutions for capacity needs, obsolescence/risk management, cost reduction, and continuous improvement.
Accountable for the planning, execution, and closure of capital projects within regional scope. Deliver and manage all necessary engineering resources for assigned projects from design transfer, commissioning, and validation qualification.
Provide leadership and develop talent through exposure to the global network. Coach & mentor individual engineers and the staff to ensure accountability corporation's facilities and that the best business decisions are made for Core Diagnostics considering strategic direction, capacity planning, supply risk, and project execution.
Utilize contract employees, consultants, and outside engineering firms to augment internal project resources. Participate in negotiations and disputes with outside vendors and third-party manufacturers.
Formally investigate on-market product issues. Coordinate facility and manufacturing problems utility projects to get ensure adherence to root cause, establish Abbott Standards, and implement corrective actions, preventative actions, and effectivity checks to solve problems.
Provide technical leadership in compliance-related areas such as qualification, validation, and preventive maintenance of equipment specifications.
In conjunction with Abbott Divisional and site representatives, assist in the development and maintenance execution of applicable Corporate Engineering Standards maintained by Global Engineering Services.
Review proposed capital plans and projects. Prepare project cost estimates and justifications. Develop resource plans for both capital planning approved projects and the preparation make recommendations regarding use of RCEs. Carefully manage commitments vs. authorized dollars per CFM Guidelines.
Constantly monitor and communicate changing project priorities to ensure that the efforts of the external engineering staff are applied to the most important projects.
The position requires a high degree of adaptability, creative decision-making, and technical problem-solving abilities to expeditiously resolve a wide variety of complex issues that occur during the execution of complex projects as well as to address unplanned, on-market manufacturing product availability and/or quality issues within the Core Diagnostics manufacturing network inclusive of TPMs.
**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOULL BRING** **:**
**Experience:**
5 years of program/department managerial experience.
Experience leading and managing complex projects within a diverse and complex environment.
Knowledge of planning, forecasting, and executing a plan/budget.
Capital Planning Experience.
Demonstrated diplomatic professional skills necessary to effectively function in a multi-site, multi-business environment.
**Education:**
**Required** **Qualification:**
Associate degree with 7 years experience.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Bachelors degree in engineering or closely related discipline with 10-15 years of manufacturing engineering experience in a regulated environment
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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
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 $143,300.00 $286,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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