Principal Manufacturing Molding Engineer

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.

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 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The Principal Manufacturing Molding Engineer position is part of Abbott's Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit and is based in Scarborough, Maine. This role is responsible for leading manufacturing equipment initiatives, driving quality, efficiency, and cost‑saving improvements, optimizing materials and molding processes, reducing manufacturing costs, and providing engineering support for new product development and commercialization efforts.

• Lead end-to-end injection molding and mold tooling projects, ensuring on-time delivery, budgeting, cost control, and cross‑functional alignment for programs
• Design, develop, validate, and optimize mold tooling, and injection molding processes to maximize quality, compliance, yield, and efficiency.
• Apply scientific injection molding, DOE, capability studies, root cause analysis, and IQ/OQ/PQ validation to establish robust processes.
• Troubleshoot complex injection molding, mold tooling, quality, and production issues to retain quality, optimize cost, reduce scrap, variability, and downtime.
• Lead and document mold tooling manufacturing from design through first lot to stock. Activities, including yet not limited to budget management, design reviews, supplier mold tooling build activities, FATs, mold corrections, dimensional analysis, and qualification efforts.
• Support NPI and manufacturing transfers from concept through scale-up, commercialization, and global production deployment.
• Partner with strategic suppliers and internal cross functional teams to manage mold tooling, materials, capacity, quality, cost, and lifecycle improvements.
• Establish process standards, control plans, FMEAs, DFM practices, and compliance with regulatory, ISO, and quality system requirements.
• Evaluate and implement advanced molding technologies, automation, equipment, and capital investments to improve performance and reduce costs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring in mold making, tooling design, plastics processing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead supplier engineering and manufacturing support activities, including…