Process Engineer

Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny

At Abbott, you will play a crucial role in helping 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.

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.

Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, opening in 2024, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a center for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies, including the FreeStyle 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:

In this role, you will be in charge of applying subject matter knowledge in the area of Pharmaceutical/Biological Process. You will require capacity to apply skills/knowledge within the context of specific needs or requirements. It will be a very big plus if you can bring experience in developing projects or sites from square one.

As Process Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Implementing and maintaining pharmaceutical/biological processes.
• Calculating and organizing all data for complex process flow sheets including instrumentation and control considerations.
• Modeling processes and units operations.
• Ensuring proper sequence of operation and preparing specifications and operating instructions for processing equipment.
• Conducting tests and measurements throughout stages of production to determine control over such variables as temperature, density, pressure, and viscosity.
• Service, troubleshooting, and solving engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation.
• Ensuring processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
• May be responsible for corrective and preventive actions and investigation management.

Qualifications and experience:

• A relevant third-level qualification in Engineering/Manufacturing/Science.
• Minimum 2 years experience in the Engineering/Manufacturing/Scientific field.

Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.