Clinical Laboratory Scientist II, Assay Development

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott 

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. 
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution. 
• 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. 

The Opportunity 

This position works out of our Marshfield, WI location in the Cancer 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. 

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is 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.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

As the Clinical Laboratory Scientist II, Assay Development, you’ll have the chance to perform high complexity laboratory testing on patient specimens, interpreting and reporting patient results, performing quality control and quality assurance procedures, assisting senior lab staff with advanced laboratory duties, assisting less experienced employees where needed, and complying with all applicable local, state, and federal laboratory requirements. The CLS II will consistently display excellent execution in all aspects of their work and contribute to projects and discussions in addition to daily laboratory testing.

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

What You’ll Work On 

• Ability to work on standard and complex tests, procedures, and analyses according to the laboratory’s standard operating procedures with minimal supervision.
• Perform verifications or validations within a team setting.
• Contribute to workflow efficiency gains exercises and assist with troubleshooting assays.
• Perform research and development of new clinical assays, workflows, efficiency gains, and cost reduction measures.
• Includes achieving basic understanding of assay development for paralogy targets.
• Develop genetic assays using novel testing platforms.
• Independently make adjustments to pre-existing assays as needed.
• Meet high productivity, quality, and TAT expectations.
• Generate basic reports related to business development decisions.
• Ability to set priorities and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Maintain stringent standards for quality, identifying any issues which might adversely impact the quality of test results and/or employee safety, and communicating these to the appropriate management representatives.
• Identify and effectively troubleshoot basic problems that adversely affect test performance.
• Achieves and maintains competency on required laboratory tasks.
• Maintain stringent standards for safety: identifying any issues which might adversely employee safety
• and communicating these to the appropriat