Have you ever wanted to make a difference? At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland: In Ireland, Abbott employs around 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Diabetes Care Kilkenny: Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies that enable people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can. At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare. These positions will be shift based.

Responsibilities:

• Operates production and/or test equipment.
• Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor.
• Follows Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), standard operating procedures, and applicable safety rules.
• Ensure tools and equipment are set up and operated per procedures.
• Records production information on approved document or electronic system.
• Performs basic troubleshooting on operation issues before escalating to supervisor and support team.
• May perform product testing and release.
• May assist in executing validation protocols.
• Ensures safe work practices and follows behavioural based safety guidelines at all times while on site.
• Carries out training of new employees as appropriate.
• Support continuous improvement by generating ideas and assisting in projects where needed.
• Maintain adequate stocks of operating supplies and consumables within production area as appropriate
• Perform all duties as assigned by supervisor.

Education and Experience:

• Relevant work experience advantageous but not essential or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Excellent communication / interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiastic and energetic with the ability to integrate quickly into a team environment.
• Demonstrated flexible and innovative approach to work.
• Comfortable working with computers.

What we Offer: Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as

• Health insurance,
• Excellent pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Career Development
• Fantastic new facility
• Growing business plus access to many more benefits.

To be considered further for this position please follow the below:

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Once we receive your application, we will review it against our role criteria.

If your experience meets the position's criteria, you will receive an aptitude test via email to be completed in a specified time frame.

Complete Aptitude test and Pass it

The aptitude test will be sent via email to be completed in a specified timeframe. For the aptitude test, please ensure you go to a quiet room and complete it on a desktop computer. There will be the option to do some practice tests before completing the live test. Ensure you complete these.

You must pass the aptitude test to move forward to the next stage.

1st round interview on passing

A member of our team will contact you to schedule a first interview with our team via phone.

Face to Face interview on the 8th of March

If successful at the first interview, you will be invited to attend a face-to-face interview with our team on the 8th of March at the Hoban Hotel in Kilkenny.

Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.

Work Location: In person