Sr Microbiologist

**About Abbott Sr Microbiologist**

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

**Working at Abbott**

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

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

**The Opportunity**

This position works out of our Alajuela location in the Structural Heart Business Unit. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

**What You’ll Do**
- Provides Facility Microbiological Support
- Record review of routine microbiological test results
- Routine release of manufactured product
- Technical support for facility issues in the areas of sterilization, environmental monitoring, and microbiological methods.
- Handles routine out of specification test results, or more complex out of specification issues.
- Data analysis of sterilization processes.
- Participate in audits of sterilization, test lab, and biological product vendors.
- Documentation
- Ensures correct documentation linkage flow for microbiologically related documents.
- Writes new or updates current microbiologically related documents.
- Maintains understanding of applicable standards and applies them to qualifications and test methods.
- Writes appropriate validation protocols; performs or oversees validations for new technologies, equipment, and/or test methods; creates documentation for implementation.
- Develops sterilization cycles and laboratory test methods.
- Works with technicians in conducting these qualifications.
- Technical training
- Provides training to laboratory technicians on new equipment or new test procedures.
- Provides training in the areas of sterilization validation and sterilization processes.
- Authority to sign off Qualifications, DDAs, NCMRs, COs, FMEAs, PDP forms.
- Member of R&D product teams, Operations project teams, or supports other projects as Directed by Department Manager.

**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s in microbiology or related field.
- 3-5 years of working experience in a medical device / pharmaceutical or related industry in microbiology and /or sterilization roles.
- Experience in environmental monitoring, process and product monitoring in a medical devices or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in sterilization validation for Ethylene Oxide, Steam or Chemical sterilization processes.
- Articulates microbiology technical concepts well.
- Advance Commands of English required.
- Available to work 100% on site (Coyol, Alajuela).
- Shift Administrative (Monday to Friday 8:00 am -5:00 pm).

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience working in a cross-division business unit model, preferred.
- Master´s degree in microbiology, science, administration or retaled.
- Supervising experience.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.