Production Manager - Diagnostic Instruments

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

Abbott Point of Care is a global leader in providing critical medical diagnostic and data management products for rapid blood analysis that are intuitive, reliable, and cost-effective.  Our i-STAT System is an advanced, portable diagnostic tool that provides real-time, lab-quality results within minutes to accelerate patient-care decision-making. The i-STAT System has the industry’s most comprehensive menu of tests in a single, with-patient platform, including tests for blood gases, electrolytes, chemistries, coagulation, hematology, glucose, and cardiac markers. By delivering lab-quality results in minutes, our i-STAT System fosters a collaborative, patient-centered environment while driving improved operational performance.

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:

• 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 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.
• 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

Our Princeton, NJ location has an opportunity for a Production Manager. The Production Manager will plan, direct, and monitor all production activities within the Princeton site to maximize the use of the organization's resources and meet established production specifications and schedules, volume, cost, scrap targets, and quality standards.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Aid in driving leadership vision and decision-making alignment within manufacturing
• Build effective cross-functional relationships with the manufacturing management team  
• Plan and prioritize budgets and resources (people, materials, equipment) to achieve operational excellence
• Direct management of production floor operators and technicians
• Hire, mentor, and develop exceptional individual contributors and front-line leaders
• Appraise team performance, reward and manage performance of employees.
• Champion a culture of teamwork and communication across the organization
• Build a high-performing team that consistently delivers both individual and team goals
• Ensure people have the appropriate level of training for system and processes in manufacturing. 
• Ensures that all personal and team member safety, quality and other assigned training is up to date and in compliance.
• Support a culture that embraces the safety of the work environment and the safety of our customer’s patients by compliance with company EHS procedures, policies, and GMP requirements
• Display and promote positive safety behaviors at all times; uses proper personal protective equipment, appropriate safety tools, equipment and procedures; that area and equipment operate at the highest safety levels; that all people in the area comply with the safety directives while keeping production areas neat and clean.
• Driving right first time culture and execute manufacturing unit operations by providing direct training, guidance, and problem solving
• Determine current capacity of production facility and theorize, develop, and implement roadmap for manufacturing scale up
• Establish department goals, tracking, and reporting KPIs, and drive continuous improvement efforts
• Ensure deviations, CAPA, change controls, process transfers, material dis