Quality Assurance Specialist-Diabetes Care (Mississauga)

Abbott Laboratories; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories is seeking a quality assurance professional for their Diabetes Care division in Mississauga. The role involves ensuring compliance with medical regulations, managing quality systems, and supporting team objectives. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and relevant experience in similar roles.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible work policies

International growth potential

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Familiarity with handling confidential information.
• Ability to work both in teams and independently.

Responsibilities

• Support Quality team in compliance with Canadian Medical Device Regulations.
• Ensure timely submission of Mandatory Medical Device Problem Reports.
• Analyze key Quality data for Management Review.

Skills

Decision-making

Time management

Effective communication

Continuous quality improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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.
• We offer flexible work policies that a llow a healthy balance between personal and professional life
• We invest in the development of our employees through training and growth oportunities
• We foster an environment where every voice is heard and valued

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Mississauga location in the Diabetes Care division. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

What You’ll Do

• Support Quality team in maintaining compliance with Canadian Medical Device Regulations;

• Ensure the submission of Mandatory Medical Device Problem Reports to Health Canada are correct and timely;

• Assist with maintaining effectiveness of Quality System as well as ensuring adherence to policies and procedures;

• Using effective tools for tracking deadlines and follow up actions related to key Quality activities such as complaint management, CAPAs, Non-Conformances, Suppliers, as needed;

• Represent QA in working with various functional teams to support non-complex business critical activities;

• Support QA Manager in analyzing key Quality data for the purposes of the Management Review, as needed;

• Take on various projects to assess compliance gaps and improve audit readiness.

Required Qualifications

•Bachelor’s degree;
• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role;
• Computer skills with proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint);
• Equally effective in a team environment and independently;
•Strong decision-making abilities;
• Time management skills and ability to multi-task;
• Mindful and respectful of the confidential nature of information regarding patients, customers and the business of Abbott Medical Canada;
• Effective verbal, written and presentation skills;
• Maintains a focus on continuous quality improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingualism (English and French);
• 1 to 3 years experience with data entry experience in a bilingual work environment handling patient health and customer information.

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.

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