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Manufacturing Process Engineer

Abbott

Temecula, CAJob$61–123K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$61–123K/yr
Location
Temecula, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

This experienced Manufacturing Process Engineer works at Abbott’s Temecula distribution site in the Vascular Devices division, applying medical device and manufacturing engineering knowledge under limited supervision. The role develops, maintains, and optimizes processes, supports manufacturing, and ensures process compliance. It requires a bachelor’s degree with 3–5 years of process engineering or operations experience, or a master’s degree with 3 years, along with relevant engineering, manufacturing, and quality-system expertise.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Process DevelopmentProcess OptimizationManufacturing SupportSix SigmaRisk AnalysisProcess CharacterizationProcess ValidationProcess MonitoringScale-UpTechnology TransferPFMECADFMECAQuality SystemsDrug Product ManufacturingCGMP ComplianceRegulatory FilingsOrganizational SkillsLeadershipTeamworkWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationMatrix Teamwork

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Master's DegreeChemical or Related Engineering3+ Years Process Engineering or Operations Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

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 122,000 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:

The Opportunity

This position works out of our distribution site in Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

Experienced Manufacturing Process Engineer that works under limited supervision.

Applies subject matter knowledge in the area of Medical Device and Manufacturing Engineering.

Requires capacity to apply skills/knowledge within the context of specific needs or requirements.

What You'll Work On

  • As the Experienced professional in Medical Device and Manufacturing engineering, possesses well developed skills in implementing and maintaining processes.

  • Calculates and organizes all data for complex process flow sheets including instrumentation and control considerations.

  • Models processes and units operations.

  • Ensures proper sequence of operation and prepares specifications and operating instructions for processing equipment.

  • Conducts tests and measurements throughout stages of production to determine control over such variables as temperature, density, pressure and viscosity.

  • Services, troubleshoots, and solves engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation.

  • Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

  • May be responsible for corrective and preventive actions and investigation management.

Required Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelors Degree (± 16 years)

Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Polymer Sciences/Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Science

Experience/Background

Minimum 3 year

Bachelor's Degree 3-5 years of Process Engineering or Operations experience OR a Master's Degree + 3 years of Process Engineering or Operations experience.

  • Process/equipment development and optimization experience in small drug molecules and polymers based drug delivery systems.

  • Knowledge of late stage or commercial products experience with strong focus on manufacturing support.

  • Experience with Six Sigma, risk analysis methodologies, process characterization, process validation and process monitoring, scale-up, and/or technology transfer experience, PFMECA, DFMECA.

  • Strong knowledge of Quality systems, drug product manufacturing and process validation. Work history with cGMPs, regulatory filings and compliance issues for drug product and combination devices.

  • Excellent organizational, leadership, teamwork, written and verbal communication skills together with demonstrated ability to work in a highly matrix team environment with enthusiasm and a proactive positive attitude.

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]

How this job compares

Set against the 3,278 open Process Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$61–123K/yr
  • California median$120–171K/yr347 salary ranges
  • US median$96–143K/yr1,675 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $92K, is 37% below the California median midpoint ($147K) — in the lowest quarter of Process Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 430 open Process Engineer jobs in California and 3,278 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Process Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (2,612 postings).
Education
2,126 of the 3,278 open Process Engineer jobs (65%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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