Sr Front Line Leader, Manufacturing 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:

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.

This position works out of our Columbus, Ohio plant location in the Abbott Nutrition Division. 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®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The Columbus Plant is Abbott’s first manufacturing facility in the world, making us a leader in science-backed nutrition products. Working here, you’ll be part of a family that works together to produce quality products that make a difference and help keep consumers nourished at every stage of their lives.

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:

• 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
• 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 stable company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities
• 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO AS A Sr. Leader, Manufacturing Operations

• Manage site operations during off-shift and weekend hours.  Provide vision, strategy and leadership for site operations to achieve and maintain the highest standards of quality, customer satisfaction, delivery, service and manufacturing capability to accomplish site, division and corporate goals at competitive costs. Serve as a member of the site senior staff leadership team. 
• Manage off-shift and weekend site operations to ensure production schedule and customer satisfaction targets are achieved with risks mitigated and opportunities exercised.  Provide cross-functional managerial direction to site operations, technical services, material control, and quality departments. 
• Onboarding and capability building of new front-line leaders across all departments at the plant (both internal and external) 
• Establishing and monitoring standard work for new leaders to aide in onboarding processes.
• Ensuring the appropriate set up and training in all required systems for new leaders to enable them to do their job.
• Maintaining mentoring relationships with new leaders as they go to work in their departments to address ongoing questions and challenges.
• Establishing and facilitating new training materials and modules to assist with new leader onboarding and capability building.
• Building an overall new leader training curriculum that integrates both existing and new training elements.
• Working with HR and Training to integrate the new leader training program into New Hire Orientat