Associate 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: 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.   Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.   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. • 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 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 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 Our location in Irving, TX currently has an opportunity for an Associate Manufacturing Engineer. The Associate Manufacturing Engineer will perform entry-level technical activities to create new or modify existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and/or tools in support of the company's strategic plan.       What You’ll Work On   • Works with teams to apply engineering and scientific principles to evaluate and resolve technical problems with supervision from technical lead and/or manager. • Supports continuous quality improvement. • Uses foundations of engineering to apply appropriate experimental, statistical, investigation and engineering tools to develop/modify design to meet business goals. • Multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to contribute to a team designing and developing innovative medical devices or components/subsystems in support of company's strategic plan. • Utilizes training and experience to design and develop technical drawings and documents. • Involved in executions of test methods and simulation models’ development to mitigate design risks and ensure new design reliability as directed. • Remains abreast of technical advancements and continually develop skills. • Involved in creating/updating specifications, test methods and models, protocols and reports. • Participates in prototyping products, tools, and fixtures required for research and/or development purposes. • Supports teams to work with internal departments and external vendors to obtain prototype parts and to understand their capabilities and limitations. • Coordinates with internal departments and vendors to receive prototypes for new / modified designs, performs engineering analysis and testing to ensure the design meets established requirements.  • Use empirical and experimental analysis to evaluate designs and identify potential issues with design. • Gains knowledge of r