Production 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.

Nourish the world and your career as part of the Nutrition team at Abbott.

Abbott’s Nutrition Division develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active.

Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

Columbus, Ohio, is Abbott’s first manufacturing facility in the world, making us a leader in science-backed nutrition products.

Working here, you’ll be part of a family that works together to produce quality products that make a difference and help keep consumers nourished at every stage of their lives.

This position works from 6 : 00am to 6 : 30pm and works every other weekend.

WHAT WE OFFER AT ABBOTT

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer :

• Production areas that are clean, well-lit and temperature-controlled
• Training and career development , with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs, Medical Benefits start day 1
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• Vacation 120 hours of accrued vacation (1st yr is prorated) + vacation buy program + 3 personal days + 10 paid holidays.
• Retiree Healthcare Program
• Robust 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and 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.
• A stable company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Responsible for the overall results for a single shift of a manufacturing operations line.
• Supervisory leadership in this role will primarily be focused on day to day operations, with short term focus based on meeting requirements that are tactical versus strategic.
• Coordinate activities for the shift team to ensure delivery of all key performance metrics including those in EHS, Quality, Finance, Productivity and People.
• Lead efforts required delivering quality and compliance performance for the shift / line of accountability. Initiate, manage, and make decisions which impact product quality.
• Manage budget accountability for Headcount, Overtime, and direct expenses for a shift and / or line.
• Drive OEE performance, understand the drivers, and develop and execute plans around improvement of line performance and quality metrics with support from the direct manager.

Understand all key performance indicators, driving and executing plans for improvement through team engagement.

• Drive a culture of engagement through the team and department.
• Manage and guide a team(s) of operators to improve quality and increase productivity on the line.
• Communicates to line personnel daily while maintaining a constant line presence.
• Maintains a safe work environment with 100% training and compliance to applicable procedures.
• Promote team, department and site goals through team communications and providing direction and guidance towards achievement.
• Track, trend & report on established KPI's; communicating to functional manager and site leadership team on accomplishments, opportunities for improvement and planned actions.
• Follows escalation reporting process with inputs from peers / manager for decision making as required. Make and communicate decisions that are appropriate for level of accountability.
• Budgetary accountability is limited $2MM USD.

Management :

• Assure team members are trained and understand duties, responsibilities, and performance against established expectations.
• Provide timely coaching, counseling and feedback.
• Develop all line personnel by securing appropriate training, providing mentoring and assigning progressively challenging stretch responsibilities within the scope of the team and department accountabilities.
• Execution of on time performance reviews for direct reports

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Bachelor’s degree in business, science, food technology, engineering or 2 to 4 years of experience in a regulated industry,

Required :

Demonstrated leadership skills

Knowledge of project planning tools and experience using them

Proven plant financial understanding

Experience working with and implementing Continuous Improvement tools & methodologies.

Preferred :

Previous experience working in a regulated manufacturing work environment with preference being for food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, etc.

Experience utilizing project planning and execution tools

Green Belt Certification but not required