Manager, Instrument Operations

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:

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.

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.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

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.
• 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 high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt initiative 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

The position of Manager, Instrument Operations is within our Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit located in South Portland, ME.  In this role you will be responsible for overseeing and leading instrument manufacturing operations ensuring reliability and efficiency while achieving production schedules to meet finished products demand. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure production demand is met as well as quality and compliance.

What You’ll Work On:

• Maintains a high functioning operations staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.
• Ensures policies and procedures are adhered to through coaching, counseling, disciplining, and rewarding employees.
• Maintains a safe work environment.
• Communicates job expectations.  Plans, monitors and appraises results.
• Enhances productivity by trending data and seeking gains in efficiency.  Finds and recommends root cause solutions.
• Work as a team player by seeking the advice of and lending advice to other members of the management team.  Seeks improvement through positive change in all areas of operations.
• Works closely with the Global Instrument Operations Leadership Team to ensure operations objectives are met.
• Author's objective performance evaluations for production staff.
• Familiarity with documentation control tools and writing Manufacturing Process Change Orders, as required.
• Drive gross margin improvement from technical and process improvements.
• Identify and own implementation of method-based culture for problem solving.

• Plan and execute time/labor studies for manufacturing process improvements
• Act as the manufacturing liaison alongside the Instrument Technical team.
• Act as lead to resolve reservicing manufacturability issues for instruments

Supervisory Responsibilities