Sr. Supervisor Preventive Maintenance R&D

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:

Nourish the world and your career as part of the Nutrition team at Abbott.

Abbott’s Nutrition Division 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®, and Glucerna® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

WHAT WE OFFER AT ABBOTT

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Production areas that are clean, well-lit and temperature-controlled
• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs, Medical Benefits start day 1
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• Vacation – 120 hours of accrued vacation (1st yr is prorated) + vacation buy program + 3 personal days + 10 paid holidays.
• Retiree Healthcare Program
• Robust 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• 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.
• A stable company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining effectiveness of the quality system by ensuring quality/compliance of equipment and tooling.
• Pro-actively seek ways to maintain and improve quality standards. use objective and quantifiable measures to decrease safety incidents and to increase quality and performance.
• Promote a safe work environment by ensuring the highest standards in employee safety.
• Supervise, train, and develop nonexempt personnel. Develop goals / objectives for all assigned personnel. Monitor employees' performance against goals, provide performance feedback. write and conduct development plans / performance appraisals. Manage employee HR issues.
• Manage and assign resources to address business needs, including staffing levels, overtime needs and project support.
• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources.
• Investigates and solves complex problems that impact work processes and personnel with a unit or department.
• Be responsible for overall equipment performance and maintain equipment downtime to an acceptable level. support equipment upgrades/new installations.
• Assist/support other functions as needed. proactively seek ways to increase productivity (i.e., implementing equipment improvements to increase productivity).
• Work as a liaison between Operations, Engineering, Equipment, Materials, Quality Control and Quality Assurance to manage and resolve production issues.
• Promote department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff. Leads activities of assigned staff by communicating and providing guidance as applicable.
• Provide support for compliance investigations. Resolve corrective actions.
• Provides direction and guidance to non-exempt and exempt staff, evaluates performance of and assists in career development planning for subordinates.