Job Title

Senior Technician Quality

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 is 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.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

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. You’ll 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 bachelor’s 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:

Schedule: 7:00 am-3:00 pm

Our Des Plaines, IL site has an opportunity for a Senior Technician Quality​. The Senior Technician Quality is ensuring implementation of quality plan at every stage of the manufacturing process. This role will write and revise standard operating procedures.

  What You’ll Work On

• Support and facilitate audits and regulatory inspections.
• Ensure that standards are met and report potential issues either with quality or reliability of testing procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED with a certificate in a relevant science area is also acceptable.
• 2 years of related work experience.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred Healthcare industry and experience in quality function.   
• Demonstrates understanding of how their function supports the business.
• Demonstrates proven track record utilizing core & technical competencies.
• Must have an understanding of core competencies.
• Proficient level of technical competencies.
• Required experience includes Proficient in lab techniques, including but not limited to wet chemistry, pipeting, qualitative and quantitative transferring.
• Operational/quality knowledge.
• Highly desirable experience includes: Molecular biology techniques, including PCR and FISH. Performing Out of Specification (OOS) investigations.
• MQA and or nonconformance/CAPA work experience.

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Follow 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. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on Twitter @AbbottNews.