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Title: Chemist I
Location: Scarborough, Maine
Duration: 6 Months
100% Onsite
Shift Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm
Job Summary
The position of Technical Manufacturing Chemist 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.
Job Responsibilities
Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.
Location: Scarborough, Maine
Duration: 6 Months
100% Onsite
Shift Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm
Job Summary
The position of Technical Manufacturing Chemist 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.
Job Responsibilities
- 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 o 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.
- Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
- Long Term Disability
- Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
- MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
- 401(k)
Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.