Senior Project Manager, Engineering

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.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• 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 parents, executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

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 the treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position of Senior Project Manager, Engineering is within Abbott’s Molecular Diagnostics division, which is located in Des Plaines, IL.

As a Senior Project Manager- Engineering, you'll be responsible for all aspects of a large-scale and complex project, from start to finish, ensuring it is completed on time and within budget.

What You’ll Work On:

• Manage large complex engineering projects or multiple smaller projects of low or moderate complexity.
• Organize and drive cross-functional teams (CFTs) to execute near-term tactical efforts in the achievement of long-term strategic project goals.
• Leverage CFTs to develop project costs, schedules, and resource needs. Create and maintain a project plan throughout the project.
• Effectively convey project objectives, status, and risks to cross-divisional functions and executive leadership through clear and accurate written and verbal communication.
• Develop and draft business cases for engineering projects. Seek and obtain approval of capital, when necessary, through submission of Requests for Capital Expenditures (RCEs).
• Maintain project budgets for capital and project expenses. Report cash flow projections to division finance quarterly and as needed.
• Create, obtain approval, and execute design plans for minor product design and process changes. Ensure required change control and qualification activities are executed as required to successfully achieve project goals.
• Anticipate issues and mitigate risks in advance of schedule or technical impact on the project.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with Med Device, Pharma industry.
• Extensive experience leading complex cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading manufacturing equipment/automation-related projects and/or molding/packaging-related projects.
• PMO Certification.
• Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt training and/or certification.
• Risk Management/FMEA development.
• Capital project management.

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The base pay for this position is $83,000.00 – $166,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.