About Abbott

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

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

Abbott Ireland Diabetes Care Division Donegal

The Abbott Diabetes Care division based in Donegal Town manufactures FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre system.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Must be a self-starter and possess strong analytical skills

• Ability to multi-task and work with minimal supervision & provide strong attention to detail

• Responsible for diagnosing and resolving problems and implementing a solution to prevent reoccurrence (Root cause Analysis, Corrective and Preventative Actions).

• Ability to assist with new machine integrations, configuration of peripheral devices and process recipe updates.

• Supports system software upgrades including planning and scheduling, testing and coordination with operations.

• Ability to work successfully in a team environment supporting applications and other cross functional teams to maintain and support business systems and processes.

• Supports end-users in day-to-day use of department systems and implement solutions to issues including training, process updates, documentation, system break fix or enhancements.

• Experience upgrading applications, support of cybersecurity initiatives and monitoring

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• Able to execute & lead IT projects working with cross functional teams.                   

• Communicate effectively with team members and all areas of the Business.

• Monitors IT processes to ensure compliance to corporate, divisional and local policies and procedures.

• Supports and enforces audit compliant policies and standards.

Position Accountability / Scope

• Provide IT and Business Process technical expertise to support Manufacturing Operations.

• Support in the SLC of validation documentation.

• Ability to Investigate/ troubleshoot MES and control systems to support optimization of system operations.

• Communicate with project teams for regular updates, reports, and project escalations.

• Ensure that the testing and change control strategies meet corporate policy requirements.

• Integration of hardware, software, communication protocols and interfaces to the users.

• Support 24x7 on-call production support as part of rotating team coverage.

• Assist in defining standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics.

• Support IT maintenance schedules

• Ensures Local IT has business continuity/disaster recovery plans and participates in testing of plans, as necessary and monitors results of business continuity testing.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computing or IT related disciplines preferred – or equivalent in manufacturing, Quality or engineering discipline

• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities

• Comfortable partnering with cross functional teams to understand and solve problems that will enable deliver reliable software solution.

• Support the site, critical manufacturing systems, Interface with the business, assist with change control documentation and participate in testing schedules, delivery and testing coordination.

Minimum Experience

• Experience of working in a manufacturing GMP environment.

• Web and application server management.

• Experience with POMS MES system & exposure to system upgrades a distinct advantage

• SAP, OSI Pi knowledge, technical and functional would be added advantage.

• Keen interest in technology and open to learning about new technologies and how these can be used to support the Business.

• Technical capability and comfortable with working with Oracle and basic knowledge of SQL scripting, Web and application services.