Sr. Clinical Laboratory Technical Specialist

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott   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. You’ll also have access to:   Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.  An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.  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.

This position works out of our Marshfield, WI location supporting rare disease genetic testing and hereditary cancer testing in the Cancer Diagnostics division.  We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.   Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.    Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.   Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.    Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.  The Sr. Clinical Laboratory Technical Specialist provides services of technical nature across Technical Laboratory areas. The Sr. Clinical Laboratory Technical Specialist is the front line in troubleshooting instruments, reagents, samples, and Laboratory Information system (LIS) issues and ensuring timely turnaround to ensure prompt test processing. The Sr. Clinical Laboratory Technical Specialist will perform complex laboratory tests in the clinical laboratory to provide rapid and accurate laboratory test results. This position will work directly with technical laboratory leadership to anticipate and resolve issues related to efficiencies in throughput, staffing, and laboratory processes. This position is also responsible for verifying in process sample status, pending list management, and investigating issues. What You’ll Work On   Include, but are not limited to, the following: Perform highly complex analytic processes across multiple areas of the department without direct supervision. Operate laboratory instruments, performs maintenance, as needed, and ensures proper functioning of laboratory equipment and maintaining quality assurance records. Calibrate laboratory instruments to ensure accuracy of test results. Serve as immediate source of troubleshooting support to the technical laboratory teams and assist technical laboratory leadership in determining sources, solutions, and corrective actions for errors and issues. Pull, analyze, and interpret sample and instrument data and provide this information to other departments and customers, as needed. Apply step by step