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 114,000 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 + Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year + 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 **Lake Forest, IL** location in the Core Diagnostics Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. Core Diagnostics products and associated manufacturing processes are developed and commercialized under a comprehensive quality system which complies to regulatory authority requirements for country’s Abbott supplies product to. The **Staff Engineer** is a career established and productive leader accountable for on-time and within budget completion of project/program milestones for new and existing products, processes, prototypes, mold tooling and associated equipment. The desired candidate must have a proactive mindset and exceptional project & task completion skills. Additional desired attributes include a thirst to be an everyday learner, strong emotional intelligence, and an ability to apply critical thinking to navigate through issues and risks. The candidate should have an ability to create and maintain peer and leadership relationships by treating people with respect and dignity and accepts leadership decisions as final. The candidate must work independently and cross-functionally with minimal supervision on larger, moderately complex projects/assignments and executes compliantly, efficiently, on-time, and within budget to meet business objectives. The candidate must be a skilled communicator, both written and verbally, and have a desire to inspire others to constantly achieve more to fulfill Abbott promise of creating life-changing health care technologies that help people live better, fuller lives. **What You’ll Work On** + Develop, lead & manage **multiple** Division Engineering product, capital asset, and process projects. + Apply scientific knowledge and experience to create an appropriately scoped project plan that meets business and compliance requirements. + Estimates and conveys resource and effort requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, seeking input from appropriate staff, and understanding of quality system requirements. + Must be capable of drafting technical assessments for proposed design output changes. + Prepare project plans, schedules, and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project. + Direct project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying/continued monitoring of risks, and developing and executing contingency plans. + Supports continuous quality improvement and may serve as the technical / business lead for subsystem projects. Suggests and implements improvement initiatives. + Possesses significant experience in designing and verifying solutions, adept at handling ambiguous requirements, limited information, and tight time and cost constraints. Demonstrates creativity to optimize design efficiently while ensuring effectiveness and feasibility within project requirements. + Assure project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with Supplier Quality Assurance to develop and execute project quality plans. + Proactively communicates project status by creating project and program communication plans and prepares ad hoc status reports.Participates in departmental and customer project status update meetings. Resolve project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate. Consult with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques. + Participate in external project management organizations, conferences, and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management by joining professional associations and implementing a professional development plan with focus on project management. Understand business environment and incorporate into decision making. Relate extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends. + Interface with leadership on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units. Provide technical support to business units. Exercise judgment, consult with leadership. Initiate and maintain schedule for projects and project milestones. Establish priorities of individual or project assignments. Select methods and techniques to lead a project to completion. + Manage data integrity and generate analytics and reporting that enables portfolio management and decision making for the business. Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions. Develop reports and analytics. Communicate to end-user requirements, data needs and available reporting. Provide training on processes and user requirements. Drive continuous improvement to improve data quality, system use and adoption. + This may include preparing designs and work specifications, developing project schedules, budgets, and forecasts, and selecting materials, equipment, project staff, and external contractors. + Set priorities, allocates tasks, and coordinates project staff to meet project targets and milestones. + Possesses significant experience in designing and verifying solutions, adept at handling ambiguous requirements, limited information, and tight time and cost constraints. Demonstrates creativity to optimize design efficiently while ensuring effectiveness and feasibility within project requirements. + Provides training and/or mentorship to other engineers. **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING** + Bachelor’s degree in engineering or closely related STEM field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience with 8+ years relevant experience. + Must have a passion to solve problems with a critical mindset and influencing and inspiring others to improve quality and business process execution. + Must value the relationship building and maintenance process. + Must emphasize actions/decisions based on known and potential risks. **Preferred Qualifications** + Additional post graduate education may contribute towards the desired years of experience. + 5+ years project management experience (or equivalent) with at least 3 years’ experience leading projects involving the application of general business principles (e.g., supply chain continuity, gross margin, customer design enhancements, compliance improvements). + Demonstrated ability to manage project risk by identifying and continual monitoring of action plans. + Highly organized and capacity to prioritize and adapt priority to business needs. + Led concept and feasibility business stage gate reviews. + Executed projects under regulations and standards for commercialization of In-Vitro Diagnostics. + Demonstrated success in leading complex projects. + Demonstrated success in managing multiple projects simultaneously. + Plastic molding and packaging experience. + PMP Certification. + Microsoft Project Certification. + Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. + Quality Engineer Certification. **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. 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 $83,000.00 – $166,000.00. 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