Maintenance Frontline Leader / Supervisor - Day Shift - Casa Grande, AZ

Abbott Laboratories • Casa Grande, AZ

10d • $61,300 - $122,700 • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Frontline Leader / Supervisor works at Abbott Nutrition’s Casa Grande, Arizona manufacturing plant. The role leads a GMP focus team responsible for closing high-priority demand maintenance and facility work orders, with particular attention to high-care areas. It oversees contract teams and collaborates with maintenance planning and scheduling, Operations, Engineering, and Quality to plan and execute plant maintenance and investigate equipment failures.

The position emphasizes improving response times, closing quality assessments, addressing gaps in GMP work-order processes, and driving continuous improvement across Maintenance, Operations, Quality, and Safety. The supervisor maintains a daily floor presence, communicates with the High-Performance Work Team and site stakeholders, tracks and reports KPIs, and supports a safe workplace with required training and procedural compliance. The position is accountable for meeting FDA, OSHA, and Abbott compliance standards.

This is a 12-hour day-shift role, 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with a rotating schedule that provides every other weekend off.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, food technology, or engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Two to four years of experience with maintenance responsibility in a regulated industry.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a plant maintenance environment.
• Mechanical background.
• Knowledge of project planning tools and experience using them.
• Experience working with and implementing continuous improvement tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the GMP focus team to close high-priority demand maintenance and facility work orders throughout the site, focusing on high-care areas.
• Prepare and lead daily, weekly, and monthly GMP work-order backlog reporting and communicate results to site stakeholders and equipment area owners.
• Manage contract teams, negotiate contracts, and foster relationships with business service providers.
• Improve demand maintenance work-order response times for leaks and facility defects in high-care areas.
• Lead and close out quality assessments for high-priority demand maintenance activities assigned to the GMP focus team.
• Work with the maintenance planning and scheduling team to develop, plan, and execute plant GMP maintenance and facilities activities, including preventative, predictive, and demand maintenance.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Quality to investigate equipment-related failures, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement in Maintenance, Operations, Quality, and Safety performance.
• Identify and close gaps in Maintenance/Facilities GMP work-order processes and develop the GMP focus team from a tactical to a more strategic function.
• Follow the escalation reporting process, using input from peers and the manager for decision-making as required.
• Communicate with the High-Performance Work Team daily and maintain a constant floor presence.
• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure 100% training and compliance with applicable procedures.
• Participate actively in team and department projects and execute assigned actions.
• Track, trend, and report established KPIs; communicate accomplishments, improvement opportunities, and planned actions to the functional manager and site leadership team.
• Meet applicable FDA, OSHA, and Abbott compliance standards.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Potential eligibility for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit for pursuing a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager