Quality Control Chemist I

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 122000 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 your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll 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 a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity
This position works out of our Carlsbad CA location in the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Division. Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day more than 10 million tests are run on Abbotts diagnostics instruments providing lab results for millions of people.

The Quality Control Chemist I will support raw material in-process material and finish product lot release stability studies engineering evaluations and anyrelevant investigation by performing required analytical testing under the GMP environment.

What Youll Work On

• Performs routine analysis using approved test methods in a timely manner.

• Prioritizes assigned workload to meet the customers needs.

• Maintains current status on all training requirements and supports training activities for other laboratory personnel.

• Understands and follows GMP requirements with respect to laboratory operation testing results generation anddocumentation.

• Carries out change requests/change controls as needed and be able to provide necessary explanations or justifications tothe change.

• Recognizes OOS OOT and exception events.

• Initiates and conducts investigation under the supervision of senior laboratory staff.

• Carries out method development validation verification and transfer by following established protocols wheneverrequired.

• Prepares technical protocols and reports as needed under general supervision.

• Maintains a safe working environment in accordance with established procedures and requirements.

• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitatecompletion of tasks.

• May lead a project team of moderate scope.

• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.

• Acts as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors.

• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.

• Plans organizes and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.

• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum 2 years related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree a plus.

• 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functionalarea.

• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts practices and procedures.

• General understanding of business unit/group function.

• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.

• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires areview of identifiable factors.

• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriateaction.

• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact onthe systems environment.

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

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The base pay for this position is

$73900.00 $116000.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Operations Quality

ID Infectious Disease

United States > Carlsbad : 2251 Faraday Ave

Standard

No

Not Applicable

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) Routine work with chemicals Work requiring repeated bending stooping squatting or kneeling

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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