Controls Calibration Engineer

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.

Working at Abbott

• At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL for the GES Global Engineering Services division.

The Controls Calibration Engineer will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and repair of process instrumentation and control systems used in the generation and/or distribution of utilities. Supports design, programming and specification development of equipment, and implementation of project related instrumentation and controls hardware.

What You’ll Work On

• Ensures that instrumentation and utilities control systems are properly specified, installed, programmed and calibrated to perform design function.
• Safely and effectively troubleshoot analog/digital hardware on utilities process control systems, and instrumentation, including distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC's) single loop analog controllers and related peripherals such as scanners, recorders, field I/O devices, etc.
• Periodic assessment/inspection of field device calibration frequencies and addressing "bad actor" instrument performance for replacement/upgrade.
• Assist engineering in development of functional specifications and/or design on process control systems for controls programming on major equipment/systems.
• Support validation and project commissioning associated with instrumentation and controls.
• Ensures tasks are performed and documented in compliance with approved procedures, standards, GxP, and other quality requirements.
• Completes assigned workload within predetermined schedules, and performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Safety knowledge, awareness and compliance with all safety, quality and other job-related policies and procedures; Actively participate in workplace safety and quality audits, and in other Corporate and departmental programs or initiatives.
• Use of precision tools and equipment to complete instrumentation/controls related tasks.
• Establishes and builds relationships and good communication channels with team members, customers, and other personnel, both internal and external to Abbott.

Required Qualifications

• Controls technician with at least 2+ years utilities equipment/systems experience (boilers/steam &condensate, chillers & cooling towers/chilled water, compressors/compressed air oil-free, distillation units/pretreatment & purified water, etc.), or equivalent related experience.
• High School Diploma/GED.
• Knowledge of electrical, electronic, pneumatic, mechanical, and process control systems.
• Capable of using standard department information tools, including but not limited to, CMMS, computers, tablets, data gathering systems, logs, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• An accomplished controls technician with 5+ years utilities equipment/systems experience (boilers/steam &condensate, chillers & cooling towers/chilled water, compressors/compressed air oil-free, distillation units/pretreatment & purified water, etc.).
• Associate’s degree in electronics technology or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of electrical, electronic, pneumatic, mechanical, and process control systems.
• Experience in using various software applications, including but not limited to, control systems, CMMS (Maximo), Microsoft Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Word, etc.), etc.

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The base pay for this position is $28.25 – $56.55 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.