Sr. Technician, Product Performance

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.

Our location in Sylmar, CA currently has an opportunity for a Senior Technician, Reliability

THIS IS AN ONSITE DAILY REQUIRED POSITION.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the CRM 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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

The Sr. Technician, Reliability will working under minimal supervision, perform 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 route 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.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs additional more complex analytical tests (electrical and mechanical) required for trouble shooting 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, polishing and otherwise configuring for microscopic, photographic and/or scanning electron microscope (SEM) or energy-dispersive x-ray micro analysis (EDX) 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.
• Performs other related duties as directed or assigned such as training of less experienced and/or new lab technicians

Minimum Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED
• 5 or more years of work experience as a technician.
• 2 or more years of electrical and mechanical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates Degree, technical training or additional technical certification
• Work experience in an environment that complies with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulations.
• Work experience within the Medical device industry.

WHAT WE OFFER :

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