At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland
In Ireland, Abbott employs over 5,000 people across nine sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Diabetes Care Kilkenny
Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies, including the Free Style Libre 3, a system that automatically delivers real-time, up-to-the-minute glucose readings, with the smallest and thinnest wearable glucose sensor that provides unsurpassed 14-day accuracy and optional glucose alarms directly to smartphones. This enables people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can. At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare.

This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:
As the Design Transfer Engineer, you will provide the design control knowhow to the site. You will liaise with global functions to maintain change action plans and impact assessments. Design Transfer Engineer will serve as a technical representative providing design control expertise to product change management teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead completion of Design Control deliverables for design change projects.
  
• Develop and write change action plans and design transfer plans.
  
• Support the establishment of objectives, measurable, discrete, and reliable customer, and product requirements.
  
• Maintain a strong collaborative partnership with cross-functional team members to achieve patient / user safety, customer satisfaction, and organizational success.
  
• Design verification and validation planning and execution, including any cross functional investigation and resolution activities.
  
• Ensure DHF content completion, integrity and regulatory and standards compliance.
  
• Collaboration and communicate to identify and resolve any gaps.
  
• Lead risk management activities from product concept through commercialisation.
  
• Test method development and guide test method validation activities.
  
• Establish component specification definitions, supplied component sampling plan development and vendor qualifications.
  
• Support biocompatibility and sterilisation qualification.
  
• Support audits and quality system improvement activities.
  

Education and Experience:

• Minimum Level 8 NFQ qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline
  
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in medical device Design Control process, quality engineering, Research and Development, or Process/Manufacturing Engineering with experience supporting product change and development.
  
• Problem solving skills.
  
• Strong communication skills.
  

What we Offer
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as

• Family health insurance,
  
• Excellent pension scheme
  
• Life assurance
  
• Career Development
  
• Fantastic new facility
  
• Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
  

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Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.