Supervisor Quality Control

Abbott Laboratories • San Diego, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This position works out of our San Diego, CA location in the Cardiometabolic and Informatics (CMI), 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.
The Supervisor Quality Control supervises the activities, manpower and resources within the Inspection area to ensure support is provided to meet the department and company goals. Responds to complaints on parts, and work orders, plans and implements projects and procures needed equipment, supplies and spare parts, implement policies, and procedures to maintain production compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelors in related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 4 years related work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of teams 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

• Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
• Develop direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Monitors daily work operations and provide direction to predominantly nonexempt and entry level staff to achieve unit or departmental goals.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures.
• Interprets and executes policies that affect individuals within the assigned organizational unit or department.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g., compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc.).
• Develop work schedules for department by assessing priorities, workload, and available resources.
• Maintains personnel records (e.g., work schedules, vacation schedules, leaves) and makes or directs modifications in the database to reflect actual changes.
• May perform individual contributor tasks, especially in staff or professional units.
• 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.
• Schedules team 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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