Distribution Warehouse 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:

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.

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.

The Opportunity

his position works out of our Roseville Distribution Center, MN location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Distribution Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Manage the direct activities of an area within a department or function. Provides direct supervision to professional, direct or indirect labor staff. Ensure that plans are implemented and milestones are achieved. Direct the activities of staff to achieve objectives.

What You’ll Work On

• Sets standards and monitors staff performance, provide performance feedback, write and conduct appraisals for employees, recommend merit increases and promotions, deliver rewards and sanctions.

• Provide technical expertise and guidance.

• Understand detailed area operations (function specific).

• Regularly makes decisions which impact quality, time or cost, timely decisions are required regarding issues such as to proceed or abort, work OT, etc. Manages assigned projects, work cross functionally to identify changes and necessary resources.

• Develop and recommend departmental reward and recognition programs.

• Assist employees in the creation of development plans, work with employees to meet their development needs.

• Communicate work center/department objectives and results.

• Uses time effectively, both for self and others, identifies appropriate meeting participants and uses meetings effectively.

• Coach teams, provide guidance, direction, training, resources, and time.

• Direct supervision of workforce.

• Create a climate of trust and respect within the group . Exchanges information with employees, peers, and management regarding operations.

• Interviews candidates for positions on the direct staff.

• Interact with peers in operations and within other cross-functional groups.

• Responds directly to on- site requests for information from internal and external regulatory agencies.

• Plans Activity Structure: Makes plans to accomplish assigned activities and projects, establishes priorities so as to handle competing demands, optimizes use of available resources, estimates time and resources necessary to complete tasks or projects, establishes follow up systems.

• Troubleshoots: Tracks and reviews daily indices (e.g., line outputs, labor efficiency, reject rates) and regulatory requirements to identity gaps between current and desired performance, applies standard problem solving tools (e.g., fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis), recommends and implements corrective action so that the impact of the problem is minimized, interfaces with other areas to identify and solve problems.

• Staffs Positions: Recru