At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum NFQ Level 6 Qualification in Engineering, Science or Manufacturing qualification
• Strong communication
• Strong attention to detail

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

• The Quality Technician is responsible for maintaining the effectiveness of the Quality System.
• Assists engineering in collecting, compiling, measuring, organising and recording data.
• Ensure functional area is compliant to site and divisional policies and procedures
• Support the continuous improvement and effective maintenance of the QMS
• Support the building and maintenance of successful cross functional relationships with departments such as R&D, Technical, Engineering, Operations and Regulatory Affairs in order to achieve all operational goals.
• This is a shift based role on 4 cycle shift

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the maintenance of the Quality System
• Ensuring the site delivers safe and effective products that meet customer needs whilst maintaining compliance
• Monitor and maintain the quality and compliance status of associated quality records
• Responsible for identifying and raising Quality / Compliance issues
• Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends potential issues, improvement initiatives, as applicable
• Responsible for audit readiness tasks within area of responsibility
• Responsible for identifying projects to enhance and promote the effectiveness and efficiency of the quality system and product quality.
• Support Operations to make Quality / Compliance decisions on product during processing, manufacturing, testing, monitoring and packaging