Supervisor, Quality Assurance

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:

Job Title

Supervisor, Quality Assurance

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The position of Supervisor, Quality Assurance is within our Toxicology Business Unit located in Pomona, CA. This role is responsible for supervising specific quality systems.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Supervisors and oversees specific areas of Quality Assurance or Quality Control. 

• Supervises the activities, manpower and resources within the area to ensure support is provided to meet the department and company goals.  

• Responds to complaints on parts and work orders, plans and implements projects and procures needed equipment, supplies and spare parts. 

• May implement policies and procedures to maintain production compliance. 

• Monitors daily work operations and provides direction to predominantly nonexempt and entry level staff to achieve unit or departmental goals. 

• Reviews and approves change orders. 

• Develops and reports batch record review performance indicator metrics to management team. 

• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures. 

• Provides secondary support for other quality subsystems. 

• Develops work schedules for department by assessing priorities, workload and available resources. 

• Leads the activities of assigned staff by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving department objectives. 

• Schedules human and material resources within a department or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability; carries out operations within an established budget. 

• Promotes department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff. 

• Maintains personnel records (e.g., work schedules, vacation schedules, leaves) and makes or directs modifications in the database to reflect actual changes. 

• Maintains quality system records through the establishment of a centralized documentation archiving system. 

• Manages physical quality system records for cataloging, archival, retrieval and scheduled des