Maintenance Supervisor - 1st Shift - Altavista, VA

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

• Manage the preventive and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance line support, and the department and plant maintenance budgets, also coordinate plant shutdown assignments, provide capital project input and support as well as overseeing the maintenance resources necessary to assure the production plan is met and/or exceeded while maintaining a zero incident safety mindset, teamwork attitude and excellent customer service.
• Ensure compliance to all procedures and policies concerning all areas of quality, regulatory, safety and human resources.
• Review and verify Work Orders and shift documentation.  Ensure that maintenance schedules are formulated to maximum plant advantage and ensure schedules are met.  Responsible for the accuracy of the documentation required to support maintenance work.
• Ensure timely and relevant communications to and from all levels.  This includes assuring communications to Department Manager, between shifts and to related departments.
• Directly select, train, and supervise employees. Ensure that employees understand duties and responsibilities, and review and appraise employee performance against established expectations and company policies.  Review and/or initiate all personnel and organizational changes for the respective shift.  Coach, develop, and mentor employees in areas of responsibility.  Develop growth plans; interpret, implement and support employee-related policies, procedures and programs.  Assign tasks to direct staff.
• Assist in the implementation of improvement projects as assigned by the Department Manager.  Provide leadership and valuable participation in team activities that will enhance the overall effectiveness of the Plant.
• Ensure financial performance goals are met (such as operating effectiveness, repair parts costs and overtime utilization).  Assist in the development of departmental budgets, PMs and predictive maintenance tasks. Provide input into all changes including updates, cost improvements and plans.  Be responsible for the financial performance of the assigned shift such that budgetary commitments are met.  Make recommendations on capital investments.  Supervise the resources for Preventive/Predictive Maintenance.
• Customer interface (in support of uptime and meeting production plan) through and/or daily performance review meetings.
• Lead capital plant projects or process improvement initiatives.
• You’ll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA and Abbott policies and procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, food technology or engineering or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 5 or more years leadership experience with an emphasis on supervision of direct reports, or equivalent experience in a maintenance field

• Previous experience as a mechanic, electrician or instrument tech beneficial
• Extensive experience in leading/managing projects or process improvement initiatives
• Previous Lean Six Sigma training beneficial. 
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues
• Previous experience in generating and managing financial budgets.

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