Reliability / Maintenance Engineer

Job title: Reliability / Maintenance Engineer

About the Role Abbott Diabetes Care is seeking a Reliability / Maintenance Engineer at our Buffalo Grove, IL site to sustain and improve automation equipment on a large manufacturing site. This role focuses on reliability, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement to reduce downtime and increase first-pass yield.

What You'll Do

• Managing spare part inventory levels for assigned equipment family. Identify stock out conditions and work with the parts management team to expedite restocking.
• Overseeing identification of obsolete parts, identifying replacements, and completing all engineering reviews, documentation and validation.
• Managing equipment upgrades working closely with equipment OEM's.
• Through reliability reviews, develop continuous improvement project to reduce unplanned down time, and increase first pass yield.
• Identifying preventive maintenance deficiencies and work with TPM to enhance them.
• Identify spare parts that are eligible for refurbishment and work with the approved refurbishment contractor to have the part repaired.
• Plans and conducts small- to medium-sized assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Maintains a good understanding of customer, business, and technical considerations, incorporating into work/project scoping and planning.
• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time, and people) to accomplish assigned tasks, incorporating contingencies.
• Participates in basic economic analysis and feasibility studies related to project alternatives with support.
• Benchmarks and monitors external and internal environments, evaluating changes as potential indicators of future problems and/or opportunities, and preparing for those potential scenarios.
• Independently executes the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities using standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis, reports findings and communicates recommendations to a variety of stakeholder audiences.
• Creates/modifies designs for intermediate problems, including designing and modifying more complex components/processes, and writing detailed design specifications.
• Reviews and analyzes data for patterns/trends, seeing relationships of growing complexity among the data, drawing insights, and making recommendations to pursue opportunities and/or solve problems.
• Conducts root cause analysis to resolve underlying problems, applying a customer-centric lens to identify needs and propose solutions/alterations to meet those needs.
• Implements improvements to methods, designs, and processes, proactively sharing and adopting ideas and best practices to reduce cost and optimize efficiencies/effectiveness.
• Communicates to a variety of stakeholders using formal and informal media, based on the needs and priorities of the audience.
• Builds open, honest, collaborative with a network of colleagues, contractors, and vendors by developing an understanding of others’ needs, promoting common goals, and following through on commitments.
• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance within the team and to cross-functional partners.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Science, or closely related discipline is desired or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Additional post graduate education may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in engineering, project management, and/or operational experience.
• Possesses a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.

Nice to Have

• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others’ points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one’s own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile difference.

Compensation & Benefits

• 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.