Quality Supervisor

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:

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 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 Atlanta, Georgia location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.   

 

The Supervisor, Quality is responsible for the performance of his or her team and meeting any assigned project timelines and objectives. Keys to success include proper management of product support while ensuring quality and compliance of employees/equipment, promotion of a safe and positive work environment, constant pursuit of business excellence initiatives, successful management and development of direct reports and achieving results through cross-functional relationships (i.e., Management, Engineering, Production, Equipment, Materials). The Supervisor, Quality will generate improvements through innovative ideas and execution while meeting daily production / operational/department demands.  

 

What You’ll Work On 

• Promote communication and teamwork across shifts /crews/sites as applicable. 

• Provide support for compliance investigations. resolve corrective actions. 

• Responsible for motivating all assigned personnel to ensure that all applicable documentation is within compliance of procedures and guidelines. 

• Ensure all assigned personnel are in personal training compliance and unique training needs of the group are met. 

• Participate in plant Safety, Quality and Operations meetings. 

• Assist / support other functions as needed. 

• 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 emplo