Senior Scientist

Abbott • Des Plaines, IL

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Senior Scientist role resides within our Molecular Diagnostics Business Unit and is based in Des Plaines, Illinois. The Senior Scientist will conduct quality-related activities to deliver consistent; high-quality documents; services; products and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Life Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5 years related work experience in Quality or related field; Less experience may be appropriate with advanced degree.
• Proven history of completing successful projects and driving positive compliance outcomes

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience in the Healthcare industry

Responsibilities

• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve compliance with QSR / ISO requirements.
• Complete retain and testing to aid in complaint investigations.
• Manage teams successfully complete investigational elements to identify potential nonconforming products.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (supplier quality, technical product support, risk evaluation, service) and defend technical investigation decisions.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Defines project goals and milestones.
• Responsible for timely project completion.
• Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• Ensures that solutions are compliant; innovative; thorough; practical and consistent with organizational objectives.
• May lead projects with cross-functional or broader scope.
• Interacts effectively with employees; manager; and cross-functional peers.
• May represent own team while on cross-functional project teams with other functional leaders.
• Communicate confidently and effectively with management; peers; and key stakeholders.
• Implements tactical solutions related to assignment.
• Able to contribute functional skills and expertise broadly.
• Directly influences project direction and scope.
• Scope includes one or more QA functions, with general knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Provides guidance and trains other Professionals and Technicians.
• May provide oversight to one or more QA professionals and/or contractors.
• Ensures compliance with site level policies and procedures and demonstrates a solid understanding of Division and Corporate policies and procedures by promptly addressing noncompliance issues within Division and Corporation as appropriate.
• Ensures adherence and maintains the effectiveness of the Quality System; including the Subsystems and Key processes that govern the area by promptly addressing noncompliance issues.
• Ensures evaluation of product safety and efficacy and elevation of risk-based issues.
• Creates and reviews risk management documentation to reduce or eliminate risk.
• Make independent decisions within defined parameters while assuring that these decisions are compliant with site level policies and procedures and are aligned with the appropriate quality system.
• Authors risk control packages and demonstrate the ability to analyze; evaluate; and control risk decisions by utilizing common practices throughout the quality review process.
• Investigates complex complaints with little management oversight.
• Provides solutions to a wide range of problems.
• Ensures compliant documentation in area of responsibility.
• Formulates thorough reason and justification for change.
• Identifies critical parameters associated with change.
• Represents the site as an SME or Process Community member.
• Applies solid understanding of quality system elements from product inception through launch.
• While recognizing project interdependence and with minimal oversight, it leads complex quality discussions across various departments including, as needed, external suppliers.
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for minimum of at least one respective Validation Subsystem.
• Receives general direction and exercises considerable discretion to own work detail.
• Recommend possible solutions.
• Ensures compliant documentation; carrying out tasks related to area of responsibility with management oversight.
• Decisions may have short- and long-term impact.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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