Method Development Scientist

Abbott • Santa Rosa, CA

38d • $90,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This position works out of our Santa Rosa, CA location in the Toxicology Business Unit in Rapid Diagnostics at Abbott. This role is on site daily. The person hired in this role will be developing LC-MS-MS methods for the determination of drugs and metabolites in urine and oral fluid specimens. This role will also be instrumental in providing new testing options and accurate and timely test results to our clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in chemistry, biochemistry or related discipline.
• 6 years of similar work experience
• Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures.
• Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Has a sound knowledge of various technical alternatives and their impact.
• Related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area.

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry or related discipline with 1 year of commercial toxicology laboratory experience.
• At least 6 months hands-on experience in LC-MS/MS method development and validation for pharmaceuticals in biological specimens
• Recent experience with Sciex (Analyst, Multiquant, Sciex OS) software and instrumentation.
• Recent experience in method validation of forensic toxicology techniques in accordance to published ANSI/ASB 036 or other published forensic toxicology standards.
• Experience with Hamilton Nimbus/STAR automation platforms
• 2 or more years of LC-MS/MS hands-on experience in LC-MS/MS method development and validation for pharmaceuticals in biological specimens.

Responsibilities

• Perform method development for new and existing assays
• Transfer method to method validations team
• Troubleshoot existing analytical methods
• Author, review, and verify validation protocols and reports
• Support production team with high-throughput analytical testing.
• Anticipate, recognize, and resolve complex technical issues through job knowledge, use of technical resources and well formulated, logical experimentation
• Advance the technical capabilities of the department by evaluating, recommending and implementing new technologies to meet business needs.
• Author quality and regulatory test method documents.
• Manage analytical projects
• Present project results and recommendations to senior management
• Provide guidance (scientific and administrative) for junior analytical scientists
• Proactively and cooperatively communicate with peers and management to ensure awareness of progress and issues; recommend solutions when issues arise
• Follow, understand and comply with SOP’s and policies on GLP’s and safety.

Benefits

• 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
• FreeU education benefit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior