Principal OT Systems Engineer - Columbus, OH
Listed on 2026-10-04
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Manufacturing / Production
Systems Engineer
Principal Systems Engineer – Operational Technology About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. Our Nutrition business develops science-based products for people of all ages—from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions around the world rely on our leading brands, including Similac®, Pedia Sure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna®, to live their healthiest lives.
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.
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 a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU education benefit—an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree.
- Recognition globally as a great place to work, and for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity This position works out of our Columbus, OH in the Nutrition Division.
The Principal Systems Engineer – Operational Technology will develop, deploy, and support manufacturing operations data systems across regional supply chain. Provide technical consulting support to Manufacturing Operations and project engineers, as required.
WHAT YOU’LL DO- Develop, Deploy, and maintain manufacturing operation data systems including hardware and software.
- Develop regional standard and guideline for implementation and system governance.
- Data historian, visualization, and reporting systems (OSI PI Data Historian, AF, Analytics, Vision, SEEQ and ZPI).
- Software change management and asset monitoring servers (Asset Centre, MDT).
- Manufacturing Line Control and HMI systems (Ignition).
- Inspection System software database (IQS, Seam Mate, SQL DB).
- Develop strategy for manufacturing real-time data visualization and reporting needs.
- Deploy manufacturing operations data systems as part of cross-functional capital project delivery team.
- Coordinate with internal quality and process authority organizations to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Interface with process and equipment SMEs to ensure effectiveness of auditing and reporting strategies.
- Interface with IT and operations organizations to successfully integrate manufacturing operations data systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and process data reporting systems.
- Managing the design of auditing and reporting solutions for Critical Process Parameters.
- Coordination between integrator and site resources to ensure successful delivery and support hand-off of these systems.
- Lead the process for manufacturing software system validation to be compliant with 21
CFR part 11. - Coordinate with IT support team to maintain secured IT infrastructure for manufacturing operation and actively participate in Cyber Security compliance initiatives.
- Anticipate future needs of the business.
- Benchmark internally and externally.
- Recognize indicators of future opportunities; initiate plans to acquire new skills required by changes in technology.
- Integrate financial data with technical data to analyze complex interdisciplinary problems and identifies their impact; establish probabilities; draws conclusions reflecting broad business needs; understand organizational and financial impact of recommendations
Mentor others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance. - Interface frequently with inter-organizational and outside customer contacts.
- Represent…
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