Sr. Technician, Product Analysis & Reliability

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Senior Technician Reliability will work under minimal supervision, performs relatively complex tests/analyses on products returned from the field. Performs tests on new components according to written protocols such as qualification test plans, maintains accurate written and electronic records, applies existing work methods to different situations and solves problems ranging from recurring/routine to complex situations. Work requires the application of theoretical principals, evaluation, ingenuity, and creative/analytical techniques to identify root cause failure mechanisms. May serve as lead and assign work to less experienced personnel; serves as a mentor when assisting less experienced lab staff in solving more complex problems.

What You’ll Work On

• Performs additional more complex analytical tests (electrical and mechanical) required for troubleshooting to component level to determine failure mechanism on product returned from the field for analysis.

• Assists management in the development of mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks and in the support of Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes.

• Performs necessary tests on components and/or sub-assemblies in support of qualification engineering group.

• Records analyses results using photographic and color printing equipment, word-processing and/or spreadsheet PC software in compliance with engineering and regulatory requirements.

• Supports reliability management to ensure that overall objectives, including risk management initiatives, are met in compliance with divisional operating procedures.

• Prepares samples by mounting, cross-sectioning, polish and otherwise configuring for microscopic, photographic and/or scanning electron microscope (SEM) or energy-dispersive x-ray micro analysis (EDAX) evaluation.

• May set-up special test equipment, define changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures and/or new testing equipment in support of continuous improvement initiatives.

• Notifies supervision of the need to replenish supplies/materials and to repair any equipment.

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors