STARS Technical Support Technician

at  Abbott Laboratories

ABOUT ABBOTT

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Third level qualification in Science/Engineering/Manufacturing discipline.
• Minimum 3 years manufacturing experience preferred.

• Daily equipment monitoring and repair ensuring equipment availability to support product testing.
• Ensuring conformance with all relevant Policies and Procedures. Contributing to the creation of Work Instructions and Operations Procedures to maintain compliance.
• Problem solving of test equipment to achieve product quality and production schedule goals. Ensuring that productivity, quality and cost objectives are achieved.
• Maintain planned and unplanned maintenance on test equipment.
• Support stock reviews for Laboratory consumables.
• Co-ordinate and implement process and equipment projects.
• Validation of new processes and development of technical documentation for areas of responsibility.
• Ensuring the department conducts business in a manner designed to be protective of human health, safety and the environment.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and performing other duties as assigned by management.