Title: Continuous Improvement Engineer
Location: Plymouth, MN
Duration: 12 Months
About The Role
We are seeking a proactive and motivated Continuous Improvement Engineer to support the successful implementation and sustainability of business excellence initiatives at our site. This role plays a critical part in driving cultural transformation, enabling continuous improvement, and ensuring operational standards are upheld across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Primary Functions & Objectives
- Support leadership and project teams in the timely and effective implementation of business excellence programs.
- Serve as a change agent, fostering engagement and motivating others to achieve objectives with urgency and collaboration.
- Identify, lead, and facilitate process improvement projects, workshops, and training sessions to drive cultural and operational change.
- Conduct root cause analyses, evaluate operational metrics, troubleshoot issues related to distribution, warehousing, material flow, production capacity, and facility layout.
- Develop and maintain process documentation to support operational standardization.
- Actively manage and sustain Operational Excellence (OpEx) foundations, including: 5S Visual Factory practices GMP standards
- Ensure compliance with EHS audit requirements, including safety meeting completion, zero major audit observations, near-miss reporting, and BBS adherence.
- Partner with management to ensure employee participation in OpEx activities and training programs at all levels.
- Must have Engineering 4 year degree. Entry level okay as long as the candidate has relevant co op or intern exp. Prefer local candidates.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Engineering degree
- Strong Problem solving skills
- Good communicator – reports, analysis, change management
- Data driven – collection, analysis and insight
- Learner – Goes to the source, curious mindset, learn new items quickly
- Wants to be involved with day-to-day operations – Working/shadowing/coaching Product Builders
- Self starter
- Strong follow-up, execution, and organizational skills.
- Excellent change management and facilitation abilities.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period
- Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
- Long Term Disability
- Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
- MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
- 401(k)
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, nutritional and branded generic medicines.
Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.
