Molding Engineer - Entry Level

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Abbott in Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs almost 3,000 people across 10 sites. Abbott has six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. It has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin. Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Ireland Vascular Division – Clonmel

Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.

Our broad line of vascular devices–which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.

An entry level Molding Engineer role is currently available with Abbott Vascular in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

The ideal candidate will have completed a degree course in Molding or Polymer Engineering and ideally have some work experience, be self motivated and want to drive their own work and projects.

The candidate will need a knowledge of injection molding processes and validation qualification.

Abbott Vascular is currently investing in automation and working with our vendors to implement cutting edge technology and automation cells.

This role will offer the opportunity to join a growing team and be a key player in the compliant completion of complex component delivery to create life saving medical devices for the global market. You will work with a range of different vendors spanning a range of capabilities in many different vendor product areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports implementation and ongoing use of polymer-based injection molded components used in the manufacture of AV products
• Supports molded commodities over lifecycle including product, process, quality and cost improvement initiatives, supplier and resin changes
• Troubleshoot molding issues in conjunction with supplier and lead or support internal investigations as required.
• Work closely with molding suppliers to ensure reliable supply of parts.
• Responsible for ensuring adherence to quality system through creation and update of specifications, metrology setup, design control and qualification and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Identify critical dimensions and work with suppliers to ensure proper process controls are in place.
• Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
• Interacts cross-functionally with internal and external customers and suppliers. Serves as a consultant for engineering or scientific interpretations and advice on significant matters.
• Concurrent support of multiple projects.
• Understands engineering principles, theories and concepts through to a wide range of complex and advanced problems which require novel and new innovative approaches or a breakthrough in technology.
• Cultivates internal and external network of resources to complete tasks. May lead a project team, determining goals, objectives and managing schedules for the projects.

Education & Job Skills:

• National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) Level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline. Ideally the candidate will have some relevant work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Working technical knowledge and application of principles, practices and procedures within the field of polymer component manufacture, in particular injection molding. General understanding of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/relationships. Will perform this role within a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in non-compliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Must have a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. May lead a project team of moderate scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organises and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgement within defined limits to determine appropriate action. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
• Works under general supervision. Follows established procedures. Work is reviewed with soundness of technical judgement, overall adequacy and accuracy.
• May provide limited work direction and guidance to exempt and/or skilled non-exempt levels of employees; may be asked to evaluate performance of and assist in career development planning for subordinates.

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