Incoming Quality Assurance Technician - Casa Grande, United States - Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories

Verified Company

Casa Grande, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

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 114,000 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:

Production areas that are
clean, welllit and temperaturecontrolled:
Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance

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Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plan
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Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs,
Medical Benefits start day 1:

Vacation
120 hours of accrued vacation (1st yr is prorated) + vacation buy program + 3 personal days + 10 paid holidays:
Retiree Healthcare program

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Robust 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match

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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

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A stable company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

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 Casa Grande, Arizona location in the Abbott Nutrition division. Our Nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands - including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna - to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

Casa Grande, Ariz., is one of Abbott's leading nutrition manufacturing plants in the U.S., reflecting our commitment to innovation and excellence. But we're more than just a company, we're a family. Working here you'll be part of a family that works together to make a difference and enhance the lives of millions worldwide.

What You'll Work On

Prioritize tasks to efficiently be completed with emphasis on Safety, Quality and GMP
Ensures effective written and verbal communications. Regularly interfaces with key internal and external stakeholders to manage area of responsibility
Communicate clearly and work together in a team environment
Must be able to work with cross functional teams, selfmotivated, able to problem solve
Monitoring the Production Schedule and balancing changing workload to prevent adverse production impact
Maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system including commodity lot trace, file retention, labels and ingredients for Halal, Kosher Schedule A and Kosher Schedule B compliance
Responsible for sampling and testing ingredients and packaging materials, as to comply with quality procedures and assuring specifications and quality guidelines are met.
Analytical analysis of the ingredients and physical evaluation of the packaging materials as defined by testing procedures
Recognize and report method procedure problems, out of specification conditions, or other anomalies to leader
Minor trouble shooting of equipment with some assistance from supervision
Input of quality data into quality/inventory computer systems including MITS, AMAPS, and LIMS
Placing commodities on hold as necessary, maintaining a hold list and pursuing final disposition of commodities on hold through destruction, returns to vendor or release; based on justification and approval
Leading Supplier Event Notifications to supplier, Supplier QA and relaying supplier investigation findings to impacted manufacturing production line
Updating plant procedures to meet new policies and accurately reflect practices
Perform administrative duties and project management as required
Provide "On Call" Coverage, as assigned

You'll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA and Abbott policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

High school diploma (or equivalent) required plus 1 year of college science (e.g. chemistry) with appropriate labs and 1 year of college math (algebra, geometry, trigonometry or calculus)
Or High school diploma (or equivalent) plus 2 years of equivalent plant QA lab experience at an Abbott Nutrition facility
Or B.S. or B.A. D