Senior QC Lab Analyst

at  AbbVie

Company Description
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Laboratory Documentation and Computerized Systems compliance with Data
• Integrity policies and regulatory requirements.
• Understand Regulations and business processes required to maintain Laboratory Data
• Integrity.
• Ensuring timely completion of all laboratory analysis assigned to shift.
• Ensuring that analysts working in the assigned cell or team are performing to the best of
• their ability, coaching and providing guidance where issues occur such as poor set-up or
• test execution performance.
• Improving the overall efficiency and velocity within the assigned team.
• identifying and implementing improvements in analytical practices using ‘Zero, Believe it,
• Achieve it’
• Ensuring that the agreed test schedule is adhered to and identifying recovery paths to bring
• test schedules back into alignment with plant requirements.
• Identifying weaknesses in laboratory performance and working with the laboratory
• Supervisors to rectify.
• Supporting & initiating analytical OOS issues as they arise in a timely manner both through
• practical work and through Soltraqs.
• Acting as designee for the Laboratory Supervisor as assigned.
• Ensuring 6S excellence is maintained across the Laboratory.
• Instilling a quality culture of Zero, Believe it, Achieve it amongst the QC laboratory team
• Ensuring that all laboratory test equipment is utilised and maintained correctly.
• Executing and / or supporting projects through the Lab Management team.
• Maintaining up-to-date, complete and precise records of all tests performed.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for any analytical issues which arise.
• Developing expertise and understanding of current and future analytical techniques.
• Developing and changing of in-house laboratory procedures as appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3rd level qualification in a relevant Science discipline.
• Minimum 3 years analytical experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven track record in an analytical role. Must be expert in HPLC, GC,LCMS, GCMS,
• Automatic titration, Identification techniques.
• Strong knowledge on regulatory requirements.
• Proficient in using analytical equipment in the QC lab.
  Additional Information
  AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status

• Ensure Laboratory Documentation and Computerized Systems compliance with Data
• Integrity policies and regulatory requirements.
• Understand Regulations and business processes required to maintain Laboratory Data
• Integrity.
• Ensuring timely completion of all laboratory analysis assigned to shift.
• Ensuring that analysts working in the assigned cell or team are performing to the best of
• their ability, coaching and providing guidance where issues occur such as poor set-up or
• test execution performance.
• Improving the overall efficiency and velocity within the assigned team.
• identifying and implementing improvements in analytical practices using ‘Zero, Believe it,
• Achieve it’
• Ensuring that the agreed test schedule is adhered to and identifying recovery paths to bring
• test schedules back into alignment with plant requirements.
• Identifying weaknesses in laboratory performance and working with the laboratory
• Supervisors to rectify.
• Supporting & initiating analytical OOS issues as they arise in a timely manner both through
• practical work and through Soltraqs.
• Acting as designee for the Laboratory Supervisor as assigned.
• Ensuring 6S excellence is maintained across the Laboratory.
• Instilling a quality culture of Zero, Believe it, Achieve it amongst the QC laboratory team
• Ensuring that all laboratory test equipment is utilised and maintained correctly.
• Executing and / or supporting projects through the Lab Management team.
• Maintaining up-to-date, complete and precise records of all tests performed.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for any analytical issues which arise.
• Developing expertise and understanding of current and future analytical techniques.
• Developing and changing of in-house laboratory procedures as appropriate