MitraClip Specialist Lead - 2nd Shift

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:

MitraClip Specialist Lead

Divisional Information

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

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 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

This position works out of our Westfield, IN, location in the Structural Heart division.  

Main Purpose of Role

Coordinates daily work for production personnel, moving operators around as necessary to maximize output and reduce WIP levels.  Assist the supervisor in developing action plans to hit required output.  Performs production reviews to ensure high level of quality before releasing product.  As necessary, assembles MitraClip device subassemblies and finished goods in accordance with approved manufacturing procedures.  Performs a wide variety of assembly operations including heavy microscopy use, soldering, complex gluing operations, fusing of materials, precise loading/alignment of components, and numerous inspections in accordance with complex manufacturing process instructions.

What You’ll Work On

• Understands Line Balance, performs hourly line walks and adjusts headcount to achieve daily targets
• Accurately summarizes activities/downtime/rejects on Production Summary and Line Sheet
• Performs eLHR production reviews as lot comes off line, with ability to catch and raise quality concerns
• Identify potential Quality System gaps, communicate to Engineering, and remediate as appropriate
• Run daily Tier I meetings with operators to focus on goals, quality, safety, and productivity, and yield
• Coordinate trainings with oversight from supervisor on which stations/operators need to be trained.
• Able to train to and achieve standard work and assembly time on 7-8 stations.
• Utilize 5S tools to improve station layout
• Provides feedback on larger procedural updates to address compliance gaps or areas for performance improvement.
• Ability to train other operators to procedures, and explain key aspects of JBS
• Understands role in PFM and can direct him/herself and others when the supervisor or lead is unavailable.  Proactively rotates to lower WIP levels as needed.
• Prioritizes daily tasks with minimal oversight, provides materials requests proactively in advance
• KOL in given area and provides feedback on how to improve work flow from quality, safety and production standpoint. Can identify potential quality issues and work with Engineering to help resolve issues/inconsistencies.
• Go-to person for when auditors are on the line
• Ability to train to and build any of the 8 product types (NT, NTR, XTR, NTW, XTW, G4-NT, G4-XT, TriClip)
• Perform changeover from one product type to another, on station using changeover matrix, and escalate to lead, supervisor, or equipment group depending on what product the station is changing from and to.  Requires comprehensive knowledge of various tools/equipment/fixtures<