Quality Associate 2 (Technical QA)

Abbott Laboratories; Witney; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a QA Associate in Witney, where you'll support the Technical Quality team in enhancing quality systems and processes. This role involves reviewing system change requests, managing validation packages, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You'll play a vital part in ensuring the integrity and quality of innovative glucose monitoring systems that improve lives. With a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, this is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in a dynamic environment focused on healthcare innovation.

Benefits

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Flexible Benefits Scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum secondary level education required, including English and Maths.
• Experience in a quality-based environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and process System Change Requests and Engineering Changes.
• Maintain logs for SCRs and support audit requests.

Skills

IT Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Documentation Skills

Education

Secondary Level Education

Tools

Database Management

Validation Packages

Job description

With a track record of innovation and development, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops and manufactures leading-edge glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Global Centre of Excellence for Medical Devices based in Witney, Oxfordshire. The site manufactures significant volumes of test strips annually and has also been instrumental in the research, development, and manufacture of the next generation FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, launched in September 2014.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Technical Quality team as a QA Associate, supporting our Quality Engineers with systems change requests, software version control, database and archive management, and much more.

In this exciting new position within the team, you will:

1. Review, approve and process System Change Requests (SCRs), Configuration Management (CM) requests, and Engineering Changes (ECs) from across the site.
2. Support submission of Validation Packages to the Validation Library.
3. Maintain Technical QA’s logs, including tracking SCRs, Validation Review Board (VRB), and Defect Review Board (DRB) to closure.
4. Support maintenance and update of the Site Validation Master Plan (SVMP) and validation metrics.
5. Support audit requests for validation and change control listings.

To be successful, you will have a minimum of secondary level education (to include English and Maths), and ideally bring experience in a similar role or quality-based environment. Good IT skills are required for this role along with strong written and oral skills to help generate clear and legible documentation and understand technical information. Some of your work will involve cross-functional teams, so you’ll also need the communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with colleagues in various departments across the business.

In addition to a competitive salary, Abbott offers a highly attractive benefits package which includes a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare and life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme which you can tailor to your own requirements.