Job Title: Scientist
Location: Abbott Park, IL

End Client- Abbott

Rate: DOE

Our client, a leading Medical Device & Healthcare organization, is looking for a Scientist for their Abbott Park, IL location. This is an on-site role.
Responsibilities:

• Directly supervise technical personnel.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
• May act as lead scientist, project leader, or project contributor.
• Provide technical direction and feedback to others.
• Conceive, plan, design & conduct advanced independent research in compound, assay, process, product, or method development.
  

Qualifications:

• Proven experience with standard bioanalytical methods used to characterize protein biomolecules is required.
• Past demonstration of ability to optimize analytical methods to new applications and troubleshoot instrumentation or method problems when they occur is also a requirement.
• Knowledge of enzyme activity methods would facilitate the candidates integration into immediate work activities.
• Experience with protein structure / function relationships would also be beneficial.
• Experience with presenting results of projects both internally & externally; present complex technical data to large and diverse groups.
• Ability to train others on the theoretical and practical basis of techniques, processes, and assays.
• Familiar with project planning, process updates, & experimental design.

Skills:

• Prepares & align impact goals with department goals.
• Design, plan & execute project related tasks. Design experiments to test hypothesis related to project outcomes.
• Apply advanced scientific knowledge to projects; determine priorities for experiments. Independently design and execute experiments.
  
  

Education:

• Ph.D. in a life or physical science preferred with up to two years research or industrial experience or BS/MS degree with additional progressive research experience sufficient to demonstrate equivalency