ABBOTT LABORATORIES Associate Scientist - Nutrition - Columbus, OH Salary in the United States

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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

• Coordinate testing activity for ingredient qualifications, including: coordination of both internal and external testing, verification of results, data summarization, and troubleshooting.
• Coordinate document collection for packaging material assessments, including: review and assessment of supplier compliance documents, development of packaging test plans, and data summarization.

•Work closely with Supplier Quality Assurance, Product Development, Project Management, and Purchasing groups in support of ingredient and packaging qualification projects.

·Manage ingredient qualification testing projects under the guidance of a research scientist, project coordinator, or R&D manager.

·Directs own daily activities to gather, verify, and summarize test data while incorporating appropriate procedures.

·Interact with other groups, share information, provide updates, summarize information, and distill technical information for non-technical team members. 

Accountability

• Strategy: Projects are assigned with defined scope and goals.  Assures activities are consistent with project critical path.  Detailed direction of activities is not required.  Budgets own time to carry out assigned duties.
• Quality of Work:  Responsible for documentation accuracy, quality, and timeliness of experimental results and data assessments.
• Work Performance: Successfully summarizes data and analyzes results; formulates conclusions and reviews progress with supervisor.  Highlights out of specification or aberrant results to supervisor for review.

Skills, Education & Experience

• Minimum B.S. in a scientific related field with 2 years’ experience in research or industry laboratory.
• Experience with ingredient qualification for food production, macro and micro-nutrients, proximates, contaminants, microbiology, packaging qualification or project management are an advantage.