Sr Production Supervisor

at  Abbott Laboratories

Job Description

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related STEM field
• 7 years of related experience
• Industry / supervisory experience and direct exposure to Operations
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting the manufacture of Medical Devices (i.e., cGMPs and CFRs).
• Fully Bilingual (English and Spanish)
• Ability to direct activities of employees. Ability to train and motivate assigned personnel.

• Implements and manages a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
• Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, rewarding positive behavior, and applying disciplinary action as appropriate.
• Trains and certifies to all critical assembly operations and understands all line PFM´s.
• Monitors daily metrics and provides direction and guidance to lower–level supervisors, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or Project goals.
• Retains responsibility for product from initial assembly to final distribution. Schedules and organizes assigned manufacturing lines to achieve 100% product availability and maintain targets levels of inventories.
• Communicates to line personnel daily while maintaining a constant line presence.
• Maintains regular communication with exempt-level staff to ensure alignment in running operations and achieving objectives.
• Maintains a safe environment with 100% training and compliance with applicable procedures.
• Responsible for achieving dept. attendance targets including immediate feedback to employee by instance.
• Coordinates activities related to shift starts and changes.
• Communicate with other departments and functions as need in support of meeting operational objectives.
• Helps develop, interpret and execute policies that affect work processes and personnel with the assigned organizational unit.
• Oversees personnel and processes to ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Monitors and communicates internal and external indicators that impact the business and or industry by reviewing reports and newsletters, reading organizational literature, meeting with peers and reading development reports.