Manager, Emc And Safety Compliance

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

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’ll 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 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 bachelor’s 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division, where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The Manager, EMC and Safety Compliance will lead a small team of EMC experts, serve as divisional subject matter expert on safety, EMC and radio standards, and provide leadership regarding compliance and testing.

What you’ll work on

• Manage small team of EMC engineers.

• Serve as EMC, Radio, Safety standards expert for R&D hardware development, working with certified lab as appropriate

• Assess impact of new and changes to products with regarding regulatory compliance.

• Assess impact of new and changing standards with regards to on-market and in-development products.

• Lead developing compliance strategies, creating plans and executing projects for certifying on-market products to new revisions of standards

• Work with R&D engineers to capture institutional knowledge and disseminate within this rapidly growing organization.

• Institute and proliferate best practices

• Manage anechoic chamber, ESD, and magnetic proximity test area used by multiple project teams

Required Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.

• 8 years relevant experience with BS or 6 years relevant experience with MS

• 3 years experience in Medical Device or IVD product development

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong leadership and organizational skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Good sensibilities, good knowledge of electrical engineering principles including PCB layout and schematic design with knowledge of engineering tools including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, RF communication analyzers and Smith charts.

• Good understanding of processes used in the design, documentation, and verification of medical devices or IVD.

• Experience with Medical Device Safety 60601-1, Medical Device Home Use 60601-1-11, Medical Device Alarms 60601-1-8, Medical Device EMC 60601-1-2, IVD EMC 61326-2-6, IVD Safety 60601-1, 61010-2-101, Medical equipment radio disturbances 55011, transmission equipment 2.4GHz 300 328, and country specific standards.

What We Offer

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development , with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance

• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans

• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs

• Paid time off

• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match

• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

**Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: ** www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $118,100.00 – $236,100.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com