Analyst

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• 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.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

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 Laboratory Analyst is within our Abbott Toxicology laboratory located in Loughton (Essex).

This role will support the preparation of samples and production of results within the confirmation section of the laboratory.

What You’ll Do

• To undertake the day to day work programme to agreed deadlines and quality standards.
• To assist in the maintenance and calibration of instrumentation and equipment used in the analytical processes.
• To assist in the preparation of reagents, calibration standards and control materials in accordance with the relevant SOPs.
• To assist in stock control to ensure adequate levels of reagents, chemicals and consumables are held in stock.
• To ensure a safe and efficient working environment.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Appropriate Science degree.
• Experience in a laboratory environment.
• Previous experience of using LC/MS analysers, preferably Waters and Thermo Scientific instruments.
• Previous experience and understanding of extraction methods.
• Detail-oriented, shows accountability.
• Keen interest in understanding principal of processes.
• Able to function well as an individual or as part of a team.

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.

JOB FAMILY: Operations Quality

DIVISION: TOX ARDx Toxicology

LOCATION: United Kingdom > Loughton : Langston Road, Prospect Business Park

WORK SHIFT: Standard

TRAVEL: No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Work with human blood or other potentially infectious materials.

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. 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.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.