Data Center – Physical Infrastructure Specialist
Abbott
Dublin, Unknown, Éire / Ireland
Contract
Competitive
OfficeSenior
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, nutritionals 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 nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford 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 Financial Services Cherrywood Dublin
Abbott’s EMEA Finance Shared Services centre commenced operations in Cherrywood, Dublin in October 2015. From this location the Finance Shared Services provides processing and expertise, in local languages, to Abbott divisions and affiliate companies across EMEA. The core services are in Record to Report, Order to Cash, Source to Pay and Master data management. The Financial Shared Services hub is part of Corporate Finance and has regional counterparts in the US and in Singapore.
Candidate will serve as the technical support for projects involving planning for all Abbott sites including acquisition/divestiture activities as well as provide Level III support for Implementation and Operations within Abbott Hosting Environments and IT infrastructure platforms.
Engineering: providing IT infrastructure designs and architectural solutions that include low-voltage cabling, fiber optic cabling, electrical, UPS, HVAC, Security, and external infrastructures to support LAN, WAN, and Voice platforms.
Maintain compliance with Abbott engineering, Abbott IT engineering standards, IT industry standards (e.g., ANSI TIA/EIA), Abbott Divisional and Corporate training requirements, as well as adhering to FDA and OSHA policies and procedures.
Maintain the operations and life cycle of IT managed mechanical, electrical, life safety, facility, IT infrastructure environments and IT infrastructure structured cabling systems and/or platforms.
Implementation of network devices/hardware. For example, pre-implementation physical infrastructure design & construction (Cat.6A cabling), and installation of wireless access points.
Work on construction sites supervising the installation of the designed IT infrastructure.
Responsible for timely interaction with customers of the platform, peer technologists, and senior management.
Serve as the platform technical subject matter expert and provide consulting support to the business and end-user organizations.
Produce and maintain timely, accurate engineering documentation to support implementation, operations support and quality/compliance requirements.
Frequently interacts with supplier technical staff including product development and engineering teams.
Provides weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual project and financial update via Abbott project management tool, Power Steering.
Issues purchase order request, via the Abbott Divisional business office.
Ensure a purchase or is issued via Abbott procurement department.
Ensure all purchase orders are close per Abbott business office and Abbott accounts payable guidelines.
Integrates technical expertise with communication, within division, external customers, and vendors.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, while adhering to deadlines
Demonstrates a strong customer centric approach and excellent communications skills.
This role will require the individual to travel approximately 15% of their time; includes domestic and international locations.
Active Certifications: RCDD, DDST or equivalent.
3-5 years IT infrastructure design with multinational enterprises.
5-7 years designing enterprise hosting environments and support infrastructure globally.
Bachelor’s in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or Telecommunications.
Experience in the installation of the layer one mechanics, installation, and design.
Experience in healthcare related industries is a plus.
Prior experience engineering solutions at the network level for Acquisition / Separation activity.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com or https://www.ie.abbott/, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbottand on Twitter @AbbottNews.
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