Associate Scientist R&D

About Abbott

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Please note this role is a 12-month FTC.

Job Scope:

This qualified and motivated Associate Scientist will join a dynamic R&D team to support the development of novel assays.  This individual will join a team to help plan, design, and conduct advanced studies. He or she will anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical problems.  He or she will act as independent contributor or interact/coordinate with other groups and functions on project development and improvement.  The candidate will analyze data from experiments, formulates conclusions and determines future experiments.  The successful candidate must have strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent oral and written communication skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Complete internal projects, technical investigations, and support activities with lab setup with minimal oversight.
• Product Development lifecycle: Complete internal projects, investigations, literature reviews, and technical support activities with minimal oversight across R&D projects.
• Product and Process Improvements: Investigates and supports in addressing process improvements in NPI lifecycle. Builds and maintains awareness of industry regulatory standards.
• Design control and risk management: Under direction, develops and maintains Design History File and risk management files.
• Technical Documentation: Draft and submit defined procedures, protocols in collaboration with the sites to perform testing and data analysis in support of product development lifecycle and root cause investigations.
• Sharing Knowledge: Prepares reports and may deliver presentations to internal IDEM groups. Shares knowledge and expertise with others in work group.
• Center of Excellence R&D lab set-up: Author standard operating procedures, Lab equipment procurement and purchase co-ordination, laboratory equipment and maintenance documentation, generate MSDS reference library and appropriate procedures
• Maintain a high level of professional expertise by staying current with scientific and industry literature, technologies and products.  Develop and maintain internal customer contacts to maintain technical knowledge as required to accomplish objectives.

Job Requirements:

• Willing to learn, understand and train in design and optimization of serological diagnostic tests
• Willing to take on new and challenging assignments and to implement new ideas or alternative solutions.
• Capable of adjusting to dynamic working environment and changing priorities, and of ensuring timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Understands statistical analysis.

Leadership Characteristics: Making Complex Decisions

• Excellent problem solving methodology, using industry accepted concepts and tools to solve complex technical problems in creative and effective ways as they apply to compliance issues
• Complex problem solving and decision-making based upon the available data.
• Leverages personal experience
• Open and collaborative style

Communicating Effectively

• Writes and presents effectively; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; strongly gets a message across
• Proficiency in technical writing for data summary and technical reports.

Managing Diverse Relationships

• Effective at building strong cross functional relationships with the key stakeholders
• Communicates complex technical challenges / status to the organization appropriately and effectively
• Ability to develop relationship and collaborate with external suppliers within related industries.

Acting with Integrity

• Is a person of high character; is consistent and acts in line with a clear and visible set of values and beliefs; is direct and transparent but at the same time can keep confidences

Education:

• Requirements: Higher Certificate, Ordinary or Honors Bachelor’s Degree in scientific and technical field is desired or relevant combination of education and experience.
• 0-2 years’ related work experience

The base pay for this position is

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.