Senior Quality Operations II

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:

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.
• 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.

The Opportunity

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 diagnostics division is looking for a Senior Quality Operations II at our North Chicago/Abbott Park site. This is an individual contributor role requiring comprehensive knowledge in the specific area. The position involves executing highly complex or specialized projects, adapting precedent, and making significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions. The role also includes conducting complex and critical fundamental or applied research in the biological or physical sciences, or in mathematics, requiring appreciable originality and ingenuity.

Responsibilities

• Incumbents require an understanding of several disciplines.
• Positions may involve the introduction and application of new developments in their field and may also require the development of new approaches to be used by other professions.
• Prepare detailed reports to support recommendations and conclusions and evaluate findings.
• Provides information essential to estimate the costs, resources, and time required to implement the organization’s annual Operation goals and monitor the performance of research projects to ensure targets are met.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Quality/Safety: Demonstrate an understanding of the application of the Quality Policy through daily activities. Maintain vigilance to ensure adherence to the Quality Policy and system procedures by promptly reporting noncompliance issues to management.
• Safety: Work in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
• Technical knowledge: Develop and apply operations/ product/ process knowledge to (area of support). Use sound judgment; appropriate scientific methods and thorough data analysis. Accurately documents work
• Planning/Project Management: Conceive; plan; design; execute; and document projects/activities efficiently and in conformance with applicable OPs.
• Patient Focus: Anticipates; identifies and resolves internal and external customer issues through understanding of processes; product performance and clinical utility.
• Communication/Leadership: Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills within and outside immediate area. Shares and enhances own knowledge by mentoring and training others.
• Business Focus/Alignment: Demonstrates fiscal responsibility through actionable recommendations and accomplishments such as maintaining product availability and improvements in product sustainability. Aligns resources with strategic business priorities.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Position Accountability/Scope

• Achieves team and individual performance goals. Generates and manages multiple project timelines and resources.
• Mentors others on their te