Manager, Systems Engineering

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Systems Engineering Manager

About Abbott

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.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and 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
We are recruiting for a Systems Engineering Manager to join our Abbott Heart Failure team in Pleasanton, CA, where we are focused on helping people with heart failure manage their health and ultimately change and save lives.  The Senior Staff Systems Engineer person will be primarily working on the CardioMEMS HF portfolio, which remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure, to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure, lower heart failure mortality rates, and improve quality of life for our heart failure patients.

The Systems Engineering Manager plans and directs all aspects of systems engineering activities and projects within the Systems Engineering organization.   The position ensures all systems engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in alignment with business objectives and quality system processes.  Responsibilities include financial and performance accountability for systems engineering organization.  The manager utilizes best practice systems engineering methods and provides expert technical guidance for systems engineering initiatives and oversees systems engineers to ensure logical conversion of customer requirements and performance requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform resource planning and allocation.  Perform resource management and alignment of capabilities to meet the strategic vision and needs of the business, including staffing of multiple concurrent programs.  Determines the workload based on the complexity of the project for the different disciplines and manpower requirements to meet business objectives. 
• Provide career counseling and development.  Be available and accessible to work with and help develop direct reports, including in areas of training and job opportunities.   Engage in strategic competency development.  Assess skill gaps and seek opportunities to transfer experience.  Deals with performance issues in a timely manner establishing meaningful corrective action.  Motivates staff and team members by ensuring each person understands the value of their work.
• Ensure technical integrity of the work products from group.  Monitors performance of cross-functional teams against complex timelines; develops contingency plans as needed; recommends resource and strategy adjustments.  Sets technical direction at the group and organizational level; exercise considerable discretion as to personal work details.
• Define roles and responsibilities for direct reports to ensure distributed accountability.  Ensure direct reports understand their jobs and how they will be measured against performing their jobs satisfactorily. 
• Build effective relationships.  Be personally accountable for building and maintaining collaborative relationships with Product Management Project Management, other Hardware/Software functional groups, Quality Management Systems, Operations, Commercial Groups.  Work across functions with peers in other groups to ensure collaboration for shared goals.  Seeks periodic feedback to ensure satisfaction is being met.  Faces conflicts and takes initiative to resolve issues constructively so all parties can be productive; knows when to involve others.
• Adapts Information to Customer Needs: Delivers communications tailored to the needs of the receiver; speaks and writes clearly and concisely.  Makes Key Presentations: Delivers persuasive; and motivational presentations to influence employees; peers; regulatory agencies; and/or senior management. Articulates and translates department and/or functional strategy objectives.
• Ensure appropriate laboratories and infrastructure to support the needs of staff.
• Prepares and manages budgets: Establishes departmental; or project budgets; manages against approved budgets
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of quality system processes that are directly or peripherally related to the Systems Engineering organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachler’s Degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Software, or Biomedical), Computer Science, or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in a similar position, including individual contributor work within R&D for new product development within the medical device industry. 
• Experience working in systems engineering and familiarity with systems engineering principles and deliverables. 
• Experience leading and managing other engineers to complete project work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate to all levels of the organization
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Software, or Biomedical), Computer Science, or related discipline with 6 years of work experience
• Experience and expertise with systems consisting of hardware, software, mobile app, and cloud components
• Experience and expertise with systems with RF, electromagnetics, ASICs, Bluetooth, and NFC technologies
• Class III implantable medical device experience
• Functional management experience, including resource planning, career development, department oversight

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $125,700.00 – $251,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.