Intermediate Supervisor, - Ottawa, Canada - Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Abbott
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 will have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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.

The Opportunity
This position works out of our Ottawa, Ontario location in the Point of Care, Diagnostics division.

We're empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life.

Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott's diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe.

The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world's greatest healthcare challenges.

As the Intermediate Supervisor, Manufacturing Operations, you'll have the chance to lead and direct the A shift operation in the Cartridge Assembly area.

What You'll Do

You will sustain and continuously improve results for People Safety, Product Safety and Efficient Productivity in order of priority to drive positive business results.
Provide leadership to the Operations Team to ensure alignment of Ottawa Manufacturing Excellence with Division long and shortterm goals.
Prepare, organize, prioritize, and allocate workload among team members according to business needs.
Provide coaching, mentoring and development opportunities for staff. Conduct performance appraisals and make recommendations regarding staffing, hiring, retention, promotion, salary adjustments, discipline, and dismissal to senior management.
Responsible for conducting daily huddles and completing shift report. Responsible for monitoring departmental metrics and drive to achieve or exceed expectations.
Responsible for communication of departmental procedures and ensuring team members understand their roles and follow procedures.
Responsible for understanding customer needs and providing superior customer service in a timely manner.
Recommend and implement productivity improvements and process changes.
Develop training plans to ensure 100% compliance to training requirements.
Motivate employees through interpersonal interactions on a regular basis, fostering creativity, innovation, and empowerment. Promote a positive and professional work environment.
Collaborate with Quality Assurance to ensure Operations are compliant with quality guidelines. Ensure that corrective action is taken in a timely fashion for any operational nonconformance.
Accountable for recording vacation, time off and or any additional information in the appropriate software systems for all staff.
Understand and comply with applicable EHS policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Maintain a clean and safe work environment and ensure that safety policies and procedures are observed.
Miscellaneous other duties as may be required.

Shift:

4X4 A Shift Extended, rotating four days on four days off from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm.

Required Qualifications

University Degree or a
College Diploma (3 years program) or
Equivalent manufacturing experience will be considered for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

36 years relevant work experience.
Intermediate working knowledge of MS Office.
Ability to lead, train and motivate employees.
Ability to continuously improve upon safety, quality, and performance.
Ability to make decisions with sound judgment and execute on decisions with quantifiable results.
Ability to deal with and resolve conflict and lead efforts to resolve situations.
Ability to convey communications clearly, concisely, and accurately.
Demonstrate leadership skills.
Strong organization, time, and project management skills.
Engineering education will be considered a strong asset.

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