Calibration Technician I

About the role

We are seeking a Calibration Technician I for Abbott Vascular in our Westford, MA site. This is an onsite role. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

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.

Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of technical concepts and practices, and an understanding of product or system fundamentals, from basic to complex towards the resolution of manufacturing and/or research and development tasks.
• Performs set-up, testing, repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of all area-specific equipment, materials, systems and or products.
• Troubleshoots and solves problems requiring interpretation of procedures and practices.
• Analyzes situations or data to identify issues and trends.
• Collects, compiles, measures, organizes and records data.
• Provides input to engineering, qualifications and validation studies and reports, and may keep lab note book.
• Collects, complies, measures, summarizes, records, and documents specific data gathered during a calibration.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule and assigned tasks or projects.
• Communicates as a team member with other functional groups as well as with internal customers.
• May contact outside vendors as part of job responsibilities.
• (Planning/Organization) Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
• (Decision Making/Impact) Solves problems of limited scope and complexity requiring basic interpretation of well-defined procedures and practices.
• Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information or documents.
• Includes work with QSR and ISO Standards.

Requirements

Education: High School Diploma / GED or an equivalent combination of education and work experience, Associate’s degree (± 13 years) - Or some college credits, preferred.

Experience / Background: 1-3 years related work experience. Applies limited knowledge of basic technical concepts and practices and a basic understanding of product or systems fundamentals. Utilizes basic knowledge of numerical and/or statistical data and computer software programs to resolve routine problems. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations. Performs routine technical tasks working from detailed written or verbal instructions. Performs routine set-up, testing, repair, inspection, and/or maintenance of certain area-specific equipment, materials, systems, and/or product. Assignments require limited judgment in troubleshooting proven processes.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• 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 high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• 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.

Pay

The base pay for this position is $22.55 – $45.15 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.