Scientist, Associate - Ottawa, Canada - Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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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.

As a member of Chemistry Engineering, you will contribute to the team's success by supporting continuity of supply efforts for chemistry accepted materials by performing material qualifications for new vendor lots of incoming materials.

You will also assist with experiments aimed to determine the source of variability affecting different vendor lots of the same material.

What You'll Do

Assist with material management and continuity of supply efforts for chemistrybased materials
Perform regular cycle counting and monitor expiring chemical inventory to support accurate material runout dates
Work closely with supply chain and external vendors to bring in samples of new vendor lots for qualification
Support material specification document updates in response to supplier change notifications
Prepare work orders (RECs) and work instructions (ELNs, QMNs and MMIs) for operators in multiple crossfunctional areas
Support scientists with material qualifications and inlab testing of new vendor lots of incoming materials
Coordinate experiments with engineering support, QA, operations, and planning staff
Work independently in accordance with standard practices, policies, and precedents; seek direction when needed
Plan/organize work/project assignments of a substantial variety and complexity. Maintain schedule for key work packages. Establish priorities for individual projects and assignments. Record data accurately and keep task logs
Assist with investigations into product and process issues, including root cause analysis
Communicate effectively orally and in writing with planning, operators, equipment technologists and group members of related areas and managers
Communicate ideas and suggestions for improving processes; actively participate in implementing solutions
Maintain contact with managers and group members from related functional areas, including product engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance and test.
Understand and comply with Quality and EH&S policies, procedures, and guidelines. Safeguard the environment and facilitate a safe and healthy workplace culture

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering
1 to 3 years relevant work experience in a technical job, preferred
Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; able to deal effectively with people on all organizational levels and work in a team environment across departments
Effective at planning and coordinating, with excellent timemanagement skills
Ability to handle a wide variety and large quantity of work efficiently and effectively
Ability to document work with appropriate attention to detail
Ability to build and use an effective network of people inside and/or outside the organization to give and receive information and to accomplish work objectives
Resourcefulness, ability to work in a fastpaced environment with changing priorities
Enthusiasm and propensity to continuous learning and experimentation
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

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.