Abbott
Quality Associate 1 - Calibration
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Quality Associate 1 - Calibration
Location: Witney
Grow your career and help shape the future of diabetes care technology.
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.
With a diverse global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it's next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
As the world leader in glucose monitoring, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops, and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. Our product portfolio includes FreeStyle Libre, a system that is revolutionising how people with diabetes around the world monitor their glucose levels. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people's lives.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Quality team as a QA Associate, Calibration, supporting our wider quality team in ensuring compliance to site and divisional policies and procedures. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
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Main Responsibilities
- Process calibration requests and coordinate calibration activities to ensure equipment remains compliant and available for use.
- Perform calibrations, scheduling and performing internal and external calibration requirements to the correct standard, accuracy, and frequency.
- Oversee calibration records ensuring these are maintained and accurate.
- Manage equipment inventory and asset records, ensuring information is accurate, up to date, and aligned with site requirements.
- Support system activities (Maximo), including asset creation, and schedules.
- Process calibration requests and coordinate calibration activities, including arranging offsite calibrations, shipping assets to external service providers, and ensuring their timely return.
- Raise purchase orders for calibration and maintenance services and support the administration of external vendor activities.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- Preference is given to those with prior calibration experience, ideally from a Laboratory 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 inter-personal skills to be able to build relationships with colleagues in various departments across the business.
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What Abbott Offers
- Abbott offers a benefits platform that provides security to you and your family.
- As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidized canteen and a flexible benefits scheme.
- Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including local community STEM outreach, yoga and more!
The base pay for this position is
N/A
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Operations Quality
DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:
United Kingdom > Witney : Production Facility
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Not Applicable
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