Continuous Improvement 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Continuous Improvement Engineer

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity ​

Abbott’s lifechanging tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our location in Portsmouth, Virginia currently has an opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Engineer. The Continuous Improvement Engineer is responsible for analyzing, designing and implementing operations and business process improvements for the Toxicology Portsmouth US warehouse and distribution center.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyzes, creates and implements operations and/or business process improvements that increase capacity, reduce lead-time, reduce work in process and improve quality, cost and delivery performance.
• Completes capacity analyses internally for headcount, equipment and space requirements to continuously improve layout, product flow, and workstream efficiency in the warehouse receiving, picking & replenishment, and packing& shipping operations.
• Identifies opportunities and drives incorporation of appropriate lean tool usage such as 5S, time study, line balancing, standard work, material flow and value stream mapping, process mapping and Kaizen event into the daily functions of continuous improvement and operational excellence (OpEx).
• Makes recommendations to leadership for projects/activities required to drive lower cost and lower labor-requiring operations within the distribution and warehousing functions.
• Partner with site finance team to ensure improvement programs are linked to concrete financial results.
• Develop and lead continuous improvement projects, working cross functionally to implement changes that deliver savings across the business.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain management or other related/relevant discipline
• 2-3 years’ experience in relevant fields such as logistics, operations site management or supply chain

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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.

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The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.