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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we're focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The Associate Human Factors Engineer plays a key role in supporting human factors and usability initiatives for medium-sized medical device and software projects, with close supervision. They contribute to larger programs by independently completing detailed tasks and reporting progress on usability-related activities. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify risks and resolve issues, while keeping program leadership informed. The engineer stays current with advancements in usability improvements and provides input where applicable. They exercise independent judgment in planning, organizing, and executing work, while regularly monitoring performance and updating their manager on status.

What You’ll Work On

• Using knowledge of customer needs, Company technology, business plans, as well as market research and financial tools such as ROI, contributes to usability improvement projects. Communicates to creation of improvement plans, concepts and status across Marketing, and development staff.

• Helps conduct worldwide customer, competitive, and software industry research to identify and prioritize usability improvement possibilities.

• Creates detailed usability improvement concepts. Works within internal departments, and project teams’ complete usability improvement activities.

• Contributes to the creation of usability related processes

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.  Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

• Collaborates closely with functional core team leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree  discipline appropriate to the project environment

• 1-2 years of experience in project management.

• Requires exposure to human factors concepts and application; the product development process, software technology, and effective methods of working with teams.

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment. 

• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects.

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• Travel 30% of the time, including internationally.

 

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com  

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

$83,500.00 – $153,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 25 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf