Abbott

Quality Control Chemist I

Abbott$73K — $116K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience
  • Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience
  • Technical knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures
  • Understanding of quality system environments
  • Ability to exercise judgment within defined procedures

Responsibilities

  • Performs routine analysis using approved test methods
  • Maintains training status and supports lab personnel training
  • Follows GMP requirements for lab operations and documentation
  • Conducts investigations and recognizes OOS, OOT events
  • Leads project teams of moderate scope and guides less experienced staff

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits for you and your family
  • Diverse career opportunities within the company
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity
This position works out of our Carlsbad, CA location in the Infectious Disease, Diagnostics Division. We're 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 Abbott's 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 any relevant investigation by performing required analytical testing under the GMP environment.

What You'll Work On
  • Performs routine analysis using approved test methods in a timely manner.
  • Prioritizes assigned workload to meet the customer's 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, and documentation.
  • Carries out change requests/change controls as needed and be able to provide necessary explanations or justifications to the 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 whenever required.
  • 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 facilitate completion 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
  • Bachelor's 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
  • Master's degree a plus.
  • 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.
  • 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 a review of identifiable factors.
  • Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
  • Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.


Apply Now

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

The base pay for this position is
$73,900.00 - $116,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality

DIVISION:
ID Infectious Disease

LOCATION:
United States > Carlsbad : 2251 Faraday Ave

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
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

About Abbott

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Joining Abbott means becoming part of a globally diverse team dedicated to making a lasting impact on human health. As a leader in healthcare innovation, Abbott provides a dynamic workplace where careers flourish through growth, leadership, and diversity training.

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Size
113,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1944
5 Year Trend
+15.6%
Revenue
$34.6 billion
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