Senior Scientist

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.

At Molecular Diagnostics, we realize the potential of personalized care as the laboratory’s most trusted and preferred source for molecular diagnostic solutions. We are a division of Abbott Laboratories, a global, diversified healthcare innovator with a legacy of pioneering work in medical diagnostics.

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.

• 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. • General 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.

• Quality System Compliance Demonstrates good; general understanding of the standards and regulatory bodies that regulate our industry.
• 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. •
• Risk Management 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.
• Complaint Evaluation Investigates complex complaints with little management oversight.
• Provides solutions to a wide range of problems. Solutions are compliant; innovative; thorough; practical and consistent with organizational objectives. Ensures compliant documentation in area of responsibility.
• Design Control / Documentation & Change Control Formulates thorough reason and justification for change. Identifies critical parameters associated with change.
• Represents the site as an SME or Process Community member.
• Quality Engineering 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.
• Validation 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.

• 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

• Preferred experience in the Healthcare industry

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