JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

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

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Ottawa, Ontario location in the Point of Care, 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.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate for this position will work as a member of the Chemistry Engineering Support Team and play a key role in improving manufacturing process capability by working with product, quality, and test engineers to identify and address sources of variability coming from chemistry solutions in sensor performance.

What You’ll Do

• Monitoring chemistry’s critical process parameters, critical-to-quality attributes, process, and solution yields.

• Lead and/or participate in investigations and root cause analysis to identify chemistry sources of variability impacting product performance.

• Investigations into non-conformances and documentation of findings and Corrective/ Preventative Actions in Quality Reports.

• Identification, development, and implementation of chemistry improvements.

• Gather and analyze data, create, and execute experimental and verification strategies to develop and demonstrate high process capability and product performance.

• Manage documentation updates through the Design Control System by drafting document updates and driving approvals in the electronic document system; consistently apply Quality Systems requirements and procedures.

• Independently execute assigned tasks by applying standard engineering/chemistry theories, concepts, and techniques.

• Understand and comply with Quality and EH&S policies, procedures, and guidelines. Safeguard the environment and facilitate a safe and healthy workplace culture.

• Consistently apply Quality Systems requirements and procedures.

• Communicate effectively orally and in writing with planning, operators, equipment technologists and group members of related areas and managers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering.

• Two plus years related work experience in an engineering/scientist role.

• Demonstrated initiative, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

• Ability to design experiments, analyze and interpret data and document.

• Analytical skills, creativity and innovative approach to problem solving.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary team members and to work independently.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; able to deal effectively with people on all organizational levels and work in a team environment across departments.

• Willingness to work in labs, manufacturing areas, and office environments.

• Very strong investigational skills, drive to understand and solve problems.

• Resourcefulness, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

• Familiarity with any of the following is an asset: analytical chemistry, chemistry techniques and equipment, process engineering, root cause analysis, statistics, and statistical software packages such as Minitab and SAS JMP, ISO/FDA regulations, risk management/FMEA methods, GMP and LEAN Six Sigma manufacturing principles.

Abbott Canada is committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of individuals without discrimination based on factors such as race, sex, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, age, citizenship, family or marital status, political beliefs, sexual preference or other factors included in human rights legislation. Our diversity goals for recruitment, hiring, and retention are embedded in our corporate goals, and our diversity initiatives are supported by the highest level of the organization. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce fosters more creative and innovative thinking throughout the organization. Creating an inclusive environment, where everyone is respected and valued, enables us to leverage our diversity as a business driver and strengthens our position as a global leader. Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive, high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbott’s success.

The base pay for this position is

N/A

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

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

APOC Point of Care

LOCATION:

Canada > Ottawa : 185 Corkstown Road

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

M-F (Canada)

TRAVEL:

Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)