**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 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. **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 Wafer Fab, you’ll have the chance to be a key contributor in ensuring manufacturing output, quality, and compliance of chips used in i-STAT cartridges. In this role you will be responsible for maintaining process control of the process lines you own, ensuring Critical Quality Attributes are met, improving processes, maintaining and improving the overall wafer yield including Die Yield and Prebuild Test Yield. **What You’ll Do** + Monitoring of critical process parameters, critical-to-quality attributes, process and product yield + Investigate process issues, out of control processes and scrap events to identify root cause (RCA) and prevent recurrence + Development, documentation and implementation of reaction schemes to manage equipment and process excursions and trends + Identification, development and implementation of process capability improvements + Investigations into non-conformances and documentation of findings and Corrective/Preventative Actions in Quality Reports + Consistent application of Quality Systems requirements and procedures + Effective communication with operators, equipment technologists, group members of related areas and managers + Track and Trend Critical Process Parameters (CPP), Critical to Quality Attributions (CQA) to ensure good Prebuild performance to ensure that Wafer Fab quality issues are adequately mitigated to limit bracketing and containment of wafer lots and 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 the process 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 Process Block/Lines you own. + 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. + Spend approximately equal time in the manufacturing space and working at a desk or in cross functional meetings. **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 (Chemistry/Chemical preference). + Two plus years of experience in 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. + Strong interpersonal, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills are mandatory. + Able to deal effectively with people on all organizational levels and work in a team environment across departments + Analytical skills, creativity and innovative approach to problem solving. + 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. + Enthusiasm and propensity to continuous learning and experimentation. + Ability to design experiments, analyze and interpret data, and document conclusions; experience using statistical methods + Resourcefulness, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities Experience in any of the following areas would be an asset: + Process engineering, chip manufacturing, wafer fabrication equipment, automated processing equipment, spin coating technology, thin film measurement metrology, plasma processing + Statistical process control; statistical software packages such as Minitab and SAS JMP + ISO/FDA regulations, Current Good Manufacturing Practice 21 CFR Part 820, Quality / CAPA systems. + Experimental design, data analysis, root cause analysis (6M’s/ 5 Why’s), LEAN six sigma, risk management/PFMEA methods + Process Validation 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. Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive, high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbott’s success. Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal. An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com