MES Software Engineer

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites. We have seven manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford, Kilkenny and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

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.

About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for the maintenance or the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) environment. This is a POMSnet system, and you will author and maintain recipes and worksheets for the manufacturing site using the POMSnet system. This is an ideal Software Engineer position, where the candidate has a good grounding on the C# programming language.

This organisation is looking to hire an MES engineer to join their highly efficient team to support their function.

Key responsibilities:

Design and develop MES systems.

Work as part of a team in designing and developing electronic batch records / workflows within the MES solution.

Support, troubleshoot and resolve issues within the system.

Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities within MES solution.

Form good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

What you need to succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in computing or IT related disciplines preferred or equivalent in manufacturing, Quality, or engineering discipline.

Experience in C# coding and SQL database knowledge.

Experience with direct customer and other stakeholder liaison.

Written and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated learning agility.

Ability to proactively identify issues and either resolve or escalate to the appropriate level for resolution.

Experience of Software validation within medical devices industry desirable but not essential.

Abbott offers a generous relocation package for those required to relocate to take up the role. Terms and conditions will be discussed at offer stage.