JOB DESCRIPTION:The OpportunityThis 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.
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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
