At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs around 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Diabetes Care Kilkenny

Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, opening in 2024, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies, including the FreeStyle Libre 3, a system that automatically delivers real-time, up-to-the-minute glucose readings, with the smallest and thinnest wearable glucose sensor that provides unsurpassed 14-day accuracy and optional glucose alarms directly to smartphones. This enables people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can.

At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare.

Why This Role Matters

At Abbott Diabetes Care’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, we’re expanding our Systems Engineering team, and we’re looking for a forward-thinking Senior Systems Engineer to help us shape the future of smart manufacturing. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling our Factory 4.0 vision. You’ll work alongside a dynamic team of controls engineers, vision specialists, MES architects, and data scientists to design, validate, and deploy cutting-edge systems that power the production of life-changing diabetes sensors. This is your opportunity to work at the intersection of software, automation, and data—driving innovation and ensuring our manufacturing operations are efficient, secure, and future-ready.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical expert for manufacturing data and operations systems.

• Collaborate with OEM vendors to integrate equipment data into Oracle databases.

• Map data from PLCs, SCADA systems, and line controllers to database schemas.

• Lead risk assessments and validation activities for data acquisition systems.

• Troubleshoot and optimize data queries and system performance.

• Enhance existing software systems for real-time data acquisition and continuous improvement.

• Implement and validate new software and database solutions.

• Develop robust backup and recovery systems for both PC and PLC environments.

• Conduct cybersecurity risk analyses and drive maturity improvements in OT security.

• Define and manage OS update roadmaps across manufacturing systems.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to continuously improve processes and standards.

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Systems, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical, Biomedical, or Software) or a related discipline.

• 4+ years of experience in systems integration, data acquisition, and architecture design.

• Strong background in software testing, verification, and validation.

• Proficiency in SQL database querying and experience with data historians.

• Hands-on experience with application development (e.g., Visual Studio, C#, VB.net, SQL Server).

• Familiarity with regulatory guidelines such as 21 CFR Part 820 and Part 11.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.

• Experience in validated environments with strong change control discipline is a plus.

What we Offer

Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as

• Family health insurance,

• Excellent pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Career Development

• Fantastic new facility

• Growing business plus access to many more benefits.

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Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.