Metrology Technician

About the role

The Metrology Technician position is located in Abbott Park, IL for the GES Global Engineering Services division. This role involves servicing and calibrating a wide variety of equipment, instruments, and measurement standards.

Responsibilities

• Safely and effectively performs service, calibration, and maintenance on a broadly defined scope of equipment and instruments as an Metrology Technician.
• Applies moderately complex principles, troubleshoots, and assists others in resolving equipment/instrument issues in a timely manner.
• Ensures tasks are performed and documented in compliance with approved procedures, standards, GxP and other quality requirements.
• Ensures measurement traceability of Abbott products through measurement standards and/or maintaining artifacts whose value can be ascertained through basic physical constants.
• Completes assigned workload within predetermined schedules, and performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Promptly communicates work status deviations, problems, and general information including corrective action to the customer, supervision, and associates.
• Maintains personal, professional, and technical expertise through attendance and participation in in-house and external training courses, and other developmental opportunities.
• Demonstrated skills in working as a team member with other highly specialized, competent, and independent technicians.
• Establishes and builds relationships and good communication channels with team members, customers, and other personnel, both internal and external to Abbott.

Requirements

• An associate degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with 2+ years of calibration experience with precision standards and measurement techniques.
• A comprehensive knowledge of fundamental electrical, electronic, or thermodynamic principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• An associate degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with 3+ years of calibration experience with precision standards and measurement techniques.
• A comprehensive knowledge of fundamental electrical, electronic, and thermodynamic principles.
• An accomplished Technician in at least two (2) measurement disciplines.
• A technical background in health care, nutritional products, laboratory diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceutical, or similar industries.
• A knowledge of measurement principles, measurement systems, metrology statistics, measurement assurance, and metrology software.

Skills

Knowledge of measurement principles, measurement systems, metrology statistics, measurement assurance, and metrology software.

Benefits

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Contact

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Pay

The base pay for this position is $22.50 – $45.00 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.