Operations Business Line Leader

Abbott • Temecula, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. The Operations Business Line Leader I assists the Operations Manager in overseeing the operations and personnel of the production line to maximize productivity and operating efficiencies. This role oversees the coordination of labor, materials, equipment, and tooling to assemble product effectively and deliver it to inventory, while maintaining a high level of product quality and traceability. The position ensures production is performed in full compliance with the Quality System and all procedural requirements, and promotes a safe work environment and behaviors.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) in related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 2 years Related work experience.
• Manage progress of nonexempt employees for one production line toward achievement of departmental goals.
• Manage costs of projects, manpower, and material resources for one production line.
• Performs this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in non-compliance with company and governmental regulations.
• Understands and follows established work processes so as to optimize 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.
• Interprets and executes 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.
• Able to respond to internal and/or external indicators that impact the business and/or industry.
• Monitors and reports on performance to area budget.
• Performs to the accomplishment of production line goals by 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 supports the accomplishment of daily objectives.
• Schedules manpower, material and equipment resources for their production line to effectively meet near-term demands and long-term strategies.
• 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. Consequences of erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays in assigned projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, manpower, and funds.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program
• FreeU education benefit

What This Job Offers

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