Associate Project Leader - Design Assurance - Nutrition - Columbus OH

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Associate Project Leader - Design Assurance

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division .

The Opportunity

This position reports to the Manager, Global Design Assurance. Ensures that all Abbott Nutrition products meet the highest standards for quality required by regulations and is responsible for determining trends in the supply chain and adapting or transforming quality processes to achieve breakthrough improvements. Interruption in the distribution of products can result if these efforts are not well planned and coordinated across the business.

The Design Assurance Project Leader will work with product development teams to assure the quality, safety, and efficacy of our products from development through commercialization. The Project Leader needs to be team oriented, agile, innovative and able to anticipate and mitigate risks. The Project Leader delivers timely, fact based, decisions focused on assuring quality products.

The successful candidate works with their functional group peers and managers to define Design Assurance related deliverables to ensure successful scale up to commercial scale manufacturing (successful FLTS process). Together with R&D, Technical Centers and Plant operations the incumbent assesses critical to quality attributes and ensures the manufacturability of new formulations and products.

What Youll Work On

• Assures that the design and testing for all Abbott Nutritional products are fully compliant with applicable regulations
• Facilitates product technical risk management activities through product development stages
• Utilizes Food Science knowledge to assure design, evaluate risk and successful manufacture.
• Monitors product, process and package quality performance and identifies quality related issues and trends.
• Works with multiple functions including Supply Chain, R&D, Operations, and Regulatory.
• Works on problems of medium scope that can have significant business impact
• Identify/gain agreement on design criteria, negotiate compromises, balance quality with other criteria across all functional areas
• Displays working knowledge of relationships between regulations, labeling, process and product.

• Displays working knowledge of applicable product regulations and policies
• Assures food safety through the use of HACCP and Microbiological knowledge

Required Qualifications

• B. S. in Science Related field (Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology or other technical science area).

Preferred:

• Proficient technical writing skills; able to effectively and concisely communicate issues.
• Ability to effectively organize and communicate technical information
• Knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and requirements for infant formula and nutritional products.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to work independently and/or function with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and analytical thinking.
• Knowledge of HACCP principles
• Preference of 1 year working experience in the food/nutritional industry

MISC:

• This is an on-site role - not a remote role.

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The base pay for this position is $54,000.00 $108,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.