ABBOTT LABORATORIES Supervisor / Business Line Leader II - Operations Salary in the United States

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Assists Operations Manager in managing and overseeing the operations and personnel of one or more production lines to maximize productivity and operating efficiencies.

• Manages and oversees the coordination of labor, materials, equipment, and tooling to assemble product effectively and deliver it to inventory.
• Maintains a high level of product quality and traceability during product assembly.
• Ensures production is performed in full compliance with the Quality System and all procedural requirements. Promotes safe work environment and behaviors.

Core Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Implements and manages to 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 work 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 targeted levels of inventories.
• Communicates to line personnel daily while maintaining a constant line presence.
• Maintains a safe work environment with 100% training and compliance to applicable procedures.
• Responsible for achieving dept. attendance targets including immediate feedback to employees by instance.
• Coordinates activities related to shift starts and changes.
• Communicates with other departments and functions as needed in support of meeting operational objectives.
• Helps develop, interpret, and execute policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
• Oversees personnel and processes to ensure production meets all associated quality standards.
• Oversees personnel and processes to ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Aware of and occasionally identifies internal and/or external indicators that impact the business and/or industry. Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budget through regular analysis of cost and spending.

Position Accountability / Scope:

Influence and Leadership: Performs to the accomplishment of production line goals, and assists management in reviewing team performance, relative to:

• Selecting, motivating, and training capable staff;
• Directing activities of non-exempt employees;
• Ensuring training and compliance to safety, quality and performance objectives;
• Managing goals, objectives, and performance of subordinates;
• Fostering an environment of collaboration and trust between self, team subordinates and peers, support personnel, and management;
• Utilizing available resources and processes to ensure fairness and equity in managing accountability, rewards, and recognition;
• Making decisions and exercising judgment that support the accomplishment of daily objectives and that provide role model experiences for less experienced leaders.

Planning and Organizing: Schedules manpower, material and equipment resources for their production line to effectively meet near-term demands and long-term strategies. Assists management in managing these
resources for the larger business unit.

Decision Making Impact: Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks and/or goals and objectives. Generally makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines as it relates to work processes or
schedules in order to achieve business objectives established by senior management. Participates in monthly reporting with Operations Management to monitor monthly production performance. Consequences of
erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays in assigned projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, manpower, and funds.

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Minimum Training & Experience:

Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills): Manage progress of nonexempt employees for one or more production lines toward achievement of departmental goals. Manage costs of projects, manpower, and material
resources for one or more production lines. Performs this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in non-compliance with company and governmental regulations.

Cognitive Skills: Understands and follows established work processes so as to optimize utilization of manpower and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; Develops and/or identifies
new work processes for the improved utilization of manpower and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; Facilitates others' participation in the continuous improvement program; Investigates and solves basic problems that impact work processes and personnel within a unit or department.