AddressAbbott 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.
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 student debt program and FreeU 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.
For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 5 million people with diabetes globally from routine fingersticks.
The Opportunity
Our Diabetes Care business is hiring a R&D Director, Electrical Engineering. This individual is responsible for all electrical design activities. This includes the integration of hardware and firmware as functioning embedded systems. The Director improves on and maintains Electrical Engineering design methodologies and tools. The Director plays a key role with other leaders to ensure that the complete product is optimally designed as a system. As a member of a leadership team, there is a shared responsibility with the embedded software, mechanical engineering, manufacturing process, and application software teams to develop entire products. The Director ensures, working together with these other technical leaders, that system design methodology is consistent. The Director also plays a role in improving design methodologies.
What You’ll Work On
- Technical Leadership: Participate as an active development team member on all projects. Ensure solid design methodologies are followed. Develop the design culture in the EE group to improve quality and consistency in design.
- Develop technical leaders: Identify technical team members with leadership potential and provide for them the necessary mentoring, training, and leadership opportunities necessary for them to be able to lead complex technical projects.
- Technical management: As appropriate, because of strategic importance or technical complexity, act as the technical manager on a specific project. This responsibility includes being the lead system engineer for the project, developing and managing the technical schedule, as well as collaborating with the technical lead, operations team, and commercial team.
- Resource Management: Determine resource needs by quarter for the EE team as input to the regular budget cycle. On a regular basis, manage the changing resource demand across multiple projects. Provide new hire proposals as resource demand increases.
- Project Budget: Support direct reports that are involved in active budget management on projects. May be responsible for directly managing project budget on a project.
- Technology Development: Participate in the analysis of new technologies as they may apply to proposed future product development. Contribute new technologies or processes that may be of future or current value.
- Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
- Responsible for hiring and retaining a diverse, highly qualified staff and for providing career coaching, growth, and personal development. Accountable for the staff development; critiques, instructs, mentors, evaluates, and coaches. Accountable for the performance of subordinates and work output of managed subcontractors. Maintains a safe work environment and a strong customer focus. Models optimum leadership competencies to inspire an energized, empowered and accountable work force. Models ethical behavior, presents a favorable community image and actualizes Abbott Guiding Principles and values.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- 3 direct reports: Electrical and Product Engineering Managers
- Approximately 30 indirect reports
- Indirectly manage local and off-shore engineering contractors
- Identify and qualify engineering contractors as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Minimum 10 years of progressively more responsible work experience in a high technology manufacturing environment
- Minimum 4 years of demonstrated experience at a supervisory/managerial level
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in embedded systems design, with a specialty in analog and RF design preferred. At least analog design with exposure to RF (Current knowledge and experience)
- Experience with small signal and low noise measurement circuitry (nA range)
- Experience with Ultra Low power embedded systems
- Advanced PCB processes and miniaturization experience (Flex circuitry, Chip on flex, etc)
- Experience with ASIC development, especially ASICs with Analog components
- The ability to map task interdependencies, prioritize such tasks, meet deadlines, and develop, monitor and live within budgets as well as the demonstrated ability to forecast major milestones
- Must be skilled at delegation, follow-up and team building
- Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model preferred
- Strong leadership skills, including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback
- Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
- Hands on director: required to solve complex hardware and systems problems
- Ability to travel, including internationally
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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
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 $164,900.00 – $329,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
