Design Production Artist Jobs

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.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

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. You’ll also have access to:

• 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.
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 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.

The Opportunity

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives. As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers. Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Design Production Artist, you will be responsible for preparing labeling files and technical documentation for pre-market and on-market assay kits and accessories. Label types include: manuals (print and digital), package inserts, kit labels, vial labels, troubleshooting guides, quick reference guides. This job position will help ensure that project deadlines for label creation can be met in a timely manner, while maintaining consistent high quality output according to corporate and production standards within label creation and content management software. This is an individual contributor position onsite in Alameda, CA.

The department is comprised of 30-40 staff members reporting into a manager. The department is a part of global organization responsible for English label creation and translation.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Support department with other graphic production work, including but not limited to converting software file formats, provide labeling mechanicals, prepare
• Review and revise content authored in DITA XML
• Prototypes etc.
• Partners closely with project coordinator/project manager and cross functional team to produce labeling files, with all specifications needed for print and digital, delivering combponenets on time and on budget.
• Participate in department initiatives to assess and improve internal workflows
• Provide graphic production support for a variety of packaging and labeling projects including print and digital mediums.
• Develop templates, symbols, and graphics for labeling attributes
• Routine Tasks: Prepare electronic layout design files
• Proofread label files against redlines and implement changes.
• Independent Professional Development: Stay current on print standards, web publishing applications, and best practices used in regulated industries.
• Coordinate and manage the maintenance of production files and image library
• Review and revise content authored in DITA XML

Experience You'll Bring

Required:

• Computer literacy with PC
• Bachelors Degree (BFA/BA), or an equivalent combination of work experience and education in lieu of degree.
• Requires at least 4 years of relevant work experience, such as graphic production, design, packaging etc.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of printing standards and methods of prepress production.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem solving skills
• Project management skills in an environment with strict deadlines.
• Experienced producing packaging and labeling artwork, preferably in consumer or medical packaged goods.
• Understanding of legal issues involved in packaging: trademarks, copyrights, etc. useful.
• Strong organizational skills, excellent time management skills,, works with a sense of urgency and ownership
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and strong proofreading skills a must.
• Knowledgeable in a variety of digital, print materials and methods.
• Understanding of regulatory issues and labeling requirements for medical device products useful.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. Experience with DITA XML, HTML, and CSS is a plus.

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

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.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections 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 are 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.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® and ZonePerfect® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

The salary for this role is between $65,200 – $130,400