Quality Control Chemist I

Abbott Laboratories; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefit

Job summary

Abbott in Carlsbad, CA, seeks a Quality Control Chemist I to support raw material, in-process material, and finish product lot release, stability studies, and investigations under GMP. The role includes method development, documentation, training, and guidance to junior staff.

The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of related experience, with opportunities in a global diagnostics division known for quality and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
• Minimum 2 years’ related experience in the specified area.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine analysis using approved test methods in a timely manner.
• Prioritizes workload to meet customers’ needs.
• Supports training activities for other lab personnel.
• Follows GMP requirements for laboratory operation, testing, and documentation.
• Carries out change requests and provide explanations.
• Recognizes OOS/OOT and exception events.
• Initiates investigations under supervision.
• Maintains a safe working environment.
• Mentors less experienced staff.
• Plans and prioritizes daily work to meet schedule.

Skills

GMP knowledge

Laboratory testing

Method development

Quality documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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

This position works out of our Carlsbad, CA location in the Infectious Disease, Diagnostics Division. 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.

The Quality Control Chemist I will support raw material, in-process material, and finish product lot release, stability studies, engineering evaluations, and anyrelevant investigation by performing required analytical testing under the GMP environment.

What You’ll Work On

• Performs routine analysis using approved test methods in a timely manner.
• Prioritizes assigned workload to meet the customer’s needs.
• Maintains current status on all training requirements and supports training activities for other laboratory personnel.
• Understands and follows GMP requirements with respect to laboratory operation, testing, results generation, anddocumentation.
• Carries out change requests/change controls as needed and be able to provide necessary explanations or justifications tothe change.
• Recognizes OOS, OOT, and exception events.
• Initiates and conducts investigation under the supervision of senior laboratory staff.
• Carries out method development, validation, verification, and transfer by following established protocols wheneverrequired.
• Prepares technical protocols and reports as needed under general supervision.
• Maintains a safe working environment in accordance with established procedures and requirements.
• Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitatecompletion of tasks.
• May lead a project team of moderate scope.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.
• Acts as a mentor to lower-level individual contributors.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 2 years’ related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree a plus.
• 2-5 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functionalarea.
• Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
• General understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires areview of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriateaction.
• Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact onthe systems environment.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

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.

Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $73,900.00 – $116,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.