Application Technology Lead (Manufacturing)

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. The Application Technology Lead (Manufacturing) works out of our Sylmar, CA or Waukegan, IL locations within the Business Solutions & Service IT Organization. As the Application Technology Lead (Manufacturing), you’ll have the chance to implement and build a technology focused team within our TS3 Manufacturing IT Organization. The role will focus on Manufacturing Execution System BASIS and Platform technologies delivery and support. You will work with our business customers to ensure key technologies are delivering required value to the organization.

• Build and maintain multiple DEV, QA and prod environments for a J2EE application
• Deploy and maintain various application components on JBOSS, IIS and tomcat technologies
• Maintain and manage various application related services like data transfer and data purge
• Collaborate and partner with infrastructure teams to deliver and deploy MES and other manufacturing systems
• Create and maintain a DR (Disaster Recovery) plan for MES and related systems
• Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs
• Maintain server infrastructure compliant to Cyber security standards
• Manage semi-annual code pushes for enhancements to all QA and prod environments
• Create and maintain robust and validated processes for making changes / incidents to core MES components
• Responsible for high system up-time of MES system and other related manufacturing system integrations
• Set-up monitoring for system uptime on application servers and web servers and application components
• Ability to triage performance issues on JBOSS, Linux and other systems
• Collaborate with operations and technology leaders on system upgrades and enhancements
• Create a compelling roadmap for system upgrades of the MES system
• Create and manage projects for system upgrades and system set-up
• Support Design and Development of enhancements to Rockwell FTPC platform including reports
• Responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies
• Acts as the principal designer for major systems and their subsystems
• Integrate manufacturing systems with other applications and shop floor equipment
• ITIL process understanding and deploy implement IT changes to manufacturing systems
• Work with pnuts and java code to program business rules and enhancements
• Level 3 support for Manufacturing Execution Systems

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline
• 8+ years experience in developing (Java, Pnuts) and deploying solutions
• 8+ years experience with developing manufacturing solutions in FTPC preferred or Camstar
• 5+ years experience with writing complex queries in SQL
• 3+ years experience in managing production systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science (preferred)
• Detailed understand of Cloud architecture, and infrastructure tools that support these technologies
• 5+ years' experience deploying applications and code with various application technologies like JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere, tomcat and IIS
• 3+ years creating shell scripts to automate deploying code and monitoring applications or using tools like Splunk for log management
• 9+ Years experience in IT application management or devops role and setting up related processes
• Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ, authoring validation documents and execution mostly for code deployment
• Manage a team of 3-5 direct/indirect reports
• 15% Travel Required
• Preferred Qualifications: Maintain and managing applications in Life Sciences industry with all related regulations and documentation
• Strong understanding of java and J2EE frameworks from an application standpoint
• Understanding and administration of middle-ware technologies like TIBCO, BIZTALK or JMS messaging services
• Understanding of MES and manufacturing preferably FTPC from Rockwell automation
• ITIL process in high regulated environments
• Familiarity with large scale ERP/MES Systems deployments
• Vendor management experience
• PMP certification will be nice to have
• Experience with global scale manufacturing systems (i.e. Rockwell) development, integration, and support
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
• Excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit
• 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

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.