About Abbott
We're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world – in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals – that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life.
Today, 113,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.
Abbott Galway
Abbott in Galway serves as the international hub for Abbott's Rapid Diagnostics business, which delivers annually more than 2 billion tests. As the global leader in point-of-care diagnostics, Abbott offers the broadest portfolio of best-in-class rapid tests, services, and handheld devices across all healthcare settings: the lab, the clinic, remote healthcare outposts, retail outlets, the patient's bedside and at home.
Our industry-leading near patient tests and services are unmatched across key health and therapeutic areas, including: infectious disease, cardiometabolic & informatics, toxicology and consumer diagnostics.
Description
The global Design Assurance team for IDEM, the Infectious Diseases Emerging Market Business Unit, supports R&D, Marketing, Clinical Operations, RA, QA and manufacturing functions based in Europe, Asia and US. The team is responsible for Design Control throughout the lifecycle of NPI projects, from ideation through to product launch including sustainment, for realization of our Lateral Flow Diagnostic Devices. The team supports a rapidly expanding business unit within Abbott.
To ensure we can rapidly expand our Design Assurance capability, we are recruiting a Design Assurance Engineer that will strengthen the team through implementation of best practice design controls within our projects.
Job Summary
The Design Assurance Engineer role will be instrumental in shaping the NPI Project deliverables to support our IDEM new product development pipeline. They will provide direction to and ensure compliance across all our Core Teams and Extended Teams – R&D, Marketing, QA, RA, Clinical Operations and Manufacturing.
The specific role initially will be focused on a number of exciting new product development opportunities and participate on cross-site or cross Business Unit Core Teams to ensure standardisation of project deliverables in compliance with best-in-class design controls.
Responsibilities and Duties
1. Promotes the awareness of regulatory and customer requirements throughout the organization.
2. Remediation of current Design Control procedures and practices across sites to standardise to