Senior Supervisor, Quality Control

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 115,000 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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Senior Quality Supervisor is the primary person responsible for a specific shift, or a significant and permanent project (in addition to normal quality control supervisor responsibilities) that is either cross-functional in nature or impacts multiple areas (i.e., crews, business units, sites). The Sr. Quality Supervisor 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 Sr. Quality Supervisor will generate improvements through innovative ideas and execution while meeting daily production / operational/department demands.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining effectiveness of the quality system by ensuring quality/compliance of manufacturing / production processes.
• 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 employee HR issues.
• Manage and assign resources to address business needs, including staffing levels, overtime needs and project support.
• Provide leadership for the team and appropriately address quality, production and safety needs effectively.
• Be responsible for overall equipment performance & maintain equipment downtime to an acceptable level.
• Support equipment upgrades/new installations.
• Responsible for meeting daily production goals. Proactively seek ways to support the customer (i.e., working with engineering to find alternative resolutions that to issues, while maintaining compliance, without stopping production).
• Work as a liaison between functional departments to assist in resolving issues.
• 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.

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