Production Supervisor, Intermediate

Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.

Our broad line of vascular devices–which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.

Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical

practitioner designated by the Company

With general guidance from functional management, responsible for providing team leadership to a group of employees committed to increased quality and productivity. Supports demand of the business unit. Identifies and analyses problems, plans tasks and solutions. Provides guidance to team on development, performance and productivity issues. Reports to functional and/or organisation management on team accomplishments, achievements and productivity.

Monday to Friday (A/B shift - days and evenings)

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  Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.

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  Monitors daily work operations and provides direction to predominantly non-exempt and entry level staff  to achieve unit or departmental goals.

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  Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.

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  Interprets and executes policies that affect individuals within the assigned organisational unit or department.

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  Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (for example (e.g.) compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), British Standards Institution (BSI), Equal Employment Opportunities regulations etcetera (etc.)).

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  Develops work schedules for department by assessing priorities, workload and available resources.

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  Maintains personnel records (e.g., work schedules, vacation schedules/leaves and makes or directs modifications in the database to reflect actual changes.

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  May perform individual contributor tasks, especially in staff or professional units.

 Monitors progress of non-exempt employees toward departmental goals; monitors costs of projects and human and material resources within a department or unit. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in non-compliance with governmental regulations.

Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilisation of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments; facilitates others' participation in the continuous improvement programme; investigates and solves basic problems that impact work processes and personnel within a unit or department

Promotes department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff.  Leads the activities of assigned staff by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving  department objectives. Mentors less experienced supervisors to build skills.

Schedules human and material resources within a department or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability; carries out operations within an established budget.

Assignments are expressed in the form of objectives; makes day-to-day decisions within established policies, procedures and guidelines and also contributes to objective setting within the operational group; consequences of erroneous decisions or recommendations might include delays in programme schedules and result in the allocation of more resources.

Works under a high degree of decision-making autonomy. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgement, overall adequacy and accuracy.

 Provides direction and guidance to predominantly non-exempt and entry level exempt personnel; evaluates performance of and assists in career development planning for subordinates; often responsible for a local functional or process activity.

We are looking for people who want to grow their careers with us. High-performing Production Supervisors will be encouraged to take opportunities that present themselves in other functions. We thrive on people gaining broad experience across our business, and the majority of our leadership team have been Production Supervisors on-site earlier in their careers.

Process/Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Operations Leadership, Supply Chain Planning & Purchasing, Equipment Engineering, Laboratory, Finance to name a few are always on the lookout for talented leaders with a proven ability to deliver in our Production environments.