**About Abbott Manufacturing Engineer IV**
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
**Working at Abbott**
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
**The Opportunity**
This position works out of our Alajuela location. As the Manufacturing Engineer IV, you'll develop and implement optimal, cost-effective manufacturing processes and methods in accordance with product specifications and quality standards; recommends and implements improvements to production processes, methods and controls; is also responsible for the activities related to installation and validation of production lines as well as the lifecycle management of equipment.
**What You'll Do**
- Daily support to the manufacturing activities to meet established goals for safety, quality, cost and production.
- Based on key performance indicators data such as yield, nonconforming material or leadtime, takes action to maintain indicators under control and promote continuos improvement.
- Uses statistical techniques to facilitate decision making and to draw conclusions from available data.
- Understands product cost components and its interactions, (direct & indirect material costs, MUV, labor, overhead).
- Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Performs installation/validation activities for new or existent production lines, meeting regulatory requirements. That includes equipment, process, product, and test method validations.
- Estimates validation activities cost and assures it is budgeted withing financial cycle.
- Identifies, selects, and purchases equipment/fixtures according to production requirements, due to obsolescence, redundancy, or line capacity expansion. Has direct relation with vendors to define equipment suitability.
- Keeps equipment operational by coordinating calibration, maintenance, and repair services; following manufacturer's instructions and established procedures; requesting special service when needed.
- Analyzes equipment data, trends, and performance to assure correct lifecycle management and identify and mitigate risks associated to equipment technical knowledge, spares availability and external technical service.
- Evaluates the financial, process or quality impact, derived from product & process changes.
- Has clear criteria of conforming/ non-conforming product and the test methods used for verifying conformance.
- Able to navigate and execute activities on manufacturing systems for example, update routers, BOM's or to generate new part numbers and ZFINs.
- Maintains MP's current and compliant to regulations ensuring practices at the manufacturing floor adhere to them.
- Leads or supports local cross functional team activities. Support/Lead global initiatives with other functions and sites (ie, RA, R&D, QA).
- Leads or supports CAPA investigation processes, or exception documents such as complaints investigations.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement projects for any of the main key areas: safety, quality, production, and cost, using the appropriate project management tools.
- May supervise and provide technical assistance to exempt and non-exempt personnel, being accountable for their correct training and performance management.
- Provides inputs for the departmental budget preparation.
**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in STEM careers.
- 6+ years of manufacturing/process development experience.
- Statistical techniques knowledge (DOE, SPC) is required.
- Computer software knowledge (Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point).
- Willing to travel.
- Experience with continuous improvement methodologies. Such as lean manufacturing techniques, value stream mapping, or similar.
- Knowledge of FDA, GMP, and ISO guidelines is required.
- Experience leading validation plans for medical industry products and processes and leading root cause problem solving methodologies.
- Experience in project management.
- Advance Commands of English required.
- Available to work 100% on site (Coyol, Alajuela).
- Shift Administrative (Monday to Friday 8:00 am -5:00 pm).
**Preferred Qualifications**
- (3-5) + years prior experience in medical devices manufacturing.
- Performance management.
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