Manufacturing 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.##
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* JOB DESCRIPTION:

**** 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  student debt program and  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.

Our location in
** Temecula, CA
** currently has an opportunity for a
** Manufacturing Engineer****.
**** The Opportunity
** This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division.  Our medical devices 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 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.  Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
** What You’ll Work On
** Provides support to the manufacturing organization by developing new processes and optimizing existing processes. Utilizes six sigma, lean, design control, and validation principles to create robust processes. This role requires completion of steps from process conception, design, validation, and implementation to manufacturing. Interfaces with Manufacturing, Quality and Research and Development organizations to integrate new processes into the existing manufacturing areas.
** WHAT YOU’LL DO
** Provides support to the Manufacturing organization to facilitate efficient operations within the production area, to optimize existing processes, and to ensure that production goals are met. Monitors performance of manufacturing lines, equipment, machines and tools and corrects equipment problems or process parameters that produce non-conforming products, low yields or product quality issues. Interfaces with Quality and other organizational functions to integrate new products or processes into the existing manufacturing area.
** Core

Job Responsibilities
** Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
1. Initiates and completes technical activities leading to new or improved products or process, for current programs, next generation programs and to meet strategic goals and objectives of the company. Prepares reports, publishes, and makes presentations to communicate findings.;
2. Analyzes and solves problems from basic engineering principles, theories and concepts through to a wide range of complex and advanced problems which require novel and new innovative approaches or a major breakthrough in technology.;
3. Understands engineering principles theories, concepts, practices and techniques. Develops knowledge in a field to become a recognized leader or authority in an area of specialization and applies this knowledge in leadership roles in the company.;
4. Incorporates business policies and procedures into task completion. Understands the business needs of the company, and has knowledge of the customer needs of our…