Intern - Manufacturing Engineer

1 month ago


Ottawa, Canada Abbott Laboratories Full time
p>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 will have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

  • 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 Ottawa office, in the Point of Care, Diagnostics division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including Chemistry, Electrolytes, Hematology, Blood Gases, Coagulation, Endocrinology, Cardiac Markers, Neurology, and Informatics. As the Engineer, Intermediate for Assembly Line 8, you’ll have the chance to be a key contributor in ensuring manufacturing output, quality, and compliance of i-STAT cartridges. In this role you will be responsible for achieving all key performance indicators (KPI) for the Assembly Line, including: Safety, Quality, Line Output, Line Yield, Material Use Variance, OEE, and Productivity.

What You’ll Do

  • Monitor and action Line KPI’s such as Cartridges per Hour (CPH), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Line Yield, Output, Faults, and Downtime through collaboration with Operational, Technician, and Engineering stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure that daily / weekly / monthly performance targets are being achieved.

  • Represent your line’s performance at Tier 1 (Line Team) and Tier 2 (Cross Functional Assembly Team) Performance Huddles, escalating support requests.

  • Work with Line Machine Operators to develop best practices for Line Operation to achieve KPI targets and standardize performance across the shifts.

  • Support Line Operation and Maintenance through certification to develop subject matter expertise, guide improvement prioritization, and ensure achievement of production targets.

  • Utilize Structured Problem Solving to drive to root cause on ongoing Performance and Quality issues and identify, develop, and implement robust and pragmatic solutions to avoid recurrence.

  • Track and Trend Critical Process Parameters (CPP), Critical to Quality Attributions (CQA), Finished Goods performance, and Customer Complaints to ensure that Cartridge Assembly quality issues are adequately mitigated to limit bracketing and containment of outgoing cartridge lots.

  • Drive stable and predictable quality through the establishment and maintenance of PFMEAs, Control Plans, Process Monitoring, and Error detection, proofing, and containment.

  • Ensure the compliant state of Line through development/sustaining of systems for Good Record Keeping practices for all manufacturing data and sustaining of Validations, verifications, calibrations, and design changes associated with the Line.

  • Ensure timely resolution of quality events (QRs, holds, complaints), driving for determination of root cause (investigation) and implementation of robust corrective actions or mitigations (CAPAs). Ensure process and equipment changes are validated or verified according to current quality standards.

  • Lead projects of medium complexity. Support projects of high complexity.

  • Provide guidance, mentoring training to more junior staff.

Required Qualifications

  • The minimum level of education to perform this job competently is completion of a university (bachelor’s or master’s Degree) program in the Engineering or Science (Mechanical / Electrical preference).

  • A minimum of 2+ years of experience, preferably in high-speed automated manufacturing process engineering.

  • Proven technical, creative, and implementation skills to contribute to continuous improvement of equipment / process design, quality, cost, and reliability

  • Ability to balance day-to-day production needs with completing longer term projects.

  • Ability to determine required analysis to make practical, objective decisions about the best solutions to problems.

  • Effective at planning and coordinating, with excellent time-management skills.

  • Ability to build and use an effective network of people inside and/or outside the organization to give and receive information and to accomplish work objectives.

Experience in any of the following areas would be an asset:

  • Automated assembly processes, machine vision, seal and adhesion technology, product packaging, injection molded components, or laser cutting.

  • ISO/FDA regulations, Current Good Manufacturing Practice 21 CFR Part 820, user requirements specification, process qualification, risk management/PFMEA methods, Quality / CAPA systems.

  • Experimental design, data analysis, process control, statistical analysis, root cause analysis (6M’s/ 5 Why’s), six sigma.

  • Software packages such as Solidworks, SQL, Minitab, SAS JMP, PLC/HMI Programming.

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. com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.



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