Technical Manufacturing Chemist

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Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.
The position of Technical Manufacturing Chemist I is within our Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit located at Scarborough, Maine. In this role you will produce material for use in immunology-based chromatography and enzyme tests.

• Maintains and supports the production schedule.
• Investigates problem areas and areas of desirable improvement.
• Undertakes new procedures and observes proper safety precautions.
• Responsible for in-process QC testing of manufacturing material as it relates to qualifications, quality inspections and titration.
• Maintains quality systems and proper GMP/GLP.
• Creates and follows protocols designed around product improvement.
• Responsible for making critical and non-critical bioreagents for use in product and manufacturing processes using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Works in a team setting and coordinates manufacturing efforts based upon a set production schedule and maintaining the raw bioreagent supply as needed to support this schedule.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Chemistry, Life Sciences, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Prior Experience in the following areas:
  Pipette, Spectrophotometry, HPLC, pH meters, Gel Electrophoresis, SDS Page, ELISA assays.

• Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently with moderate supervision.
• Skill in using computer applications including spreadsheet, database, manufacturing, and word processing software.

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The base pay for this position is $20.50 – $41.00 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Quality Assurance

• Hospitals and Health Care