Senior Associate, Quality Control Analyst

Our Quality Control Department is looking for a strong Senior Quality Control Analyst to join our team at the AbbVie Bioresearch Center in Worcester, MA. As a senior leader, you will perform, lead, analyze and document laboratory tests within a GMP environment in support of one or more of the following areas; raw materials, in-process product, finished product, stability, and/or validation.

You will use scientific education and your experiences to generate results in accordance with GMP/ procedural requirements and scientific principles. Additionally, you will interpret data output to resolve conformance with product specifications, perform trend analyses for assays, review and verify data generated by others.

Lastly, you will need to understand internal business process to make appropriate prioritization of your assigned work duties and duties of others in the lab, have experience and command of multiple laboratory techniques to perform them with attention to detail and train other laboratory personnel on any technique they currently have in their training matrix.

Responsibilities Include:

• Leads and influences teammates in our department with their tasks and activities
• Understands, implements, and maintains GMP with respect to laboratory records, procedures, and systems
• Proposes and implements changes to maintain procedural requirements.
• Performs, leads, analyzes and/or documents analytical test methods as written to support product/material release with minimal error.
• Continuously improve laboratory techniques and methodology.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve analytical techniques and instrument issues
• Interprets experimental data for conformance with product/material specifications
• Understands and identifies laboratory technique or instrumental performance in accordance with scientific principles
• Initiates appropriate exception documents
• Implements and ensures improvement ideas are completed to facilitate team objectives
• Implements scientific protocols to resolve exception event cause

• Bachelors degree in Science or equivalent and typically 8+ years of relevant experience
• Experienced with key analytical techniques: CE-SDS, ELISA, SDS-PAGE and HPLC
• Method validation experience preferred
• Previous GMP experience required
• Experience in training other analyst to perform laboratory procedures and assays preferred
• Participate in internal assessments and audits as required
• Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory instrumentation as required
• Maintains their certifications as needed for assigned job tasks
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills and logical thought process