Engineer, Associate - Abbott Point of Care (Ottawa)

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.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

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 of chemistry accepted materials by performing verification-based material qualifications for new vendor lots of materials. 

• Coordinate experiments with engineering support, QA, operations and planning staff. 

• Gather and analyze data, create and execute experimental and verification strategies to develop and demonstrate high process capability and product performance. 

• Prioritize problems and participate in investigations and root cause analysis to identify sources of variability impacting product performance, when implementing different vendor lots of chemistry accepted materials. 

• Communicate ideas and suggestions for improving processes; actively participate in implementing solutions. 

• Manage documentation updates through the Design Control System by drafting document updates and driving approvals in the electronic document system; consistently apply Quality Systems requirements and procedures. 

• Work independently in accordance with standard practices, policies, and precedents; seek direction when needed. 

• 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.  

• Consistently apply Quality Systems requirements and procedures. 

• Communicate effectively orally and in writing with planning, operators, equipment technologists and group members of related areas and managers. 

Required Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering

• Ability to design experiments, analyze and interpret data and document conclusions with appropriate attention to detail; experience using statistical methods is an asset. 

• Analytical skills, creativity and innovative approach to problem solving. 

• Ability to determine required analysis to make practical, objective decisions about the best solutions to problems. 

• Effective at planning and coordinating, with excellent time-management skills. 

• 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. 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; able to deal effectively with people on all organizational levels and work in a team environment across departments. 

• Enthusiasm and propensity to continuous learning and experimentation. 

• Resourcefulness, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities. 

• 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.

Abbott Canada is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of individuals without discrimination based on factors such as race, sex, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, age, citizenship, family or marital status, political beliefs, sexual preference or other factors included in human rights legislation.

Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive, high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbott’s success.

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