Sustaining Operations Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Sustaining Operations Manager

Working at Abbott

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

At Molecular Diagnostics, we realize the potential of personalized care as the laboratory’s most trusted and preferred source for molecular diagnostic solutions. We are a division of Abbott Laboratories, a global, diversified healthcare innovator with a legacy of pioneering work in medical diagnostics.

Position: Sustaining Operations Manager
Location: Molecular Diagnostics Business Unit, Des Plaines, Illinois

The Sustaining Operations Manager is responsible for leading a team that supports the ongoing performance, development, and sustainment of diagnostic instrument platforms while ensuring compliance with Abbott's Quality System requirements. This role provides supervision and direction to employees engaged in product and process support activities, including developing and executing design plans, processing vendor notifications, and creating and releasing new spare parts. The Sustaining Operations Manager ensures projects are effectively planned and executed, key milestones are achieved, and business objectives are met. Additionally, this position is accountable for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system while driving operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple instrument platforms.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop project plans, ensure milestones are met and adjust resources as required to meet commitments. Provide input to budget. Develop area goals and align with business objectives.  

• Organizes and Executes Activities: Coordinates the detailed timeline, key milestones and resources to process design changes, vendor notifications, and the release of new parts.  

• Supports Achievement of Development Goals: Balances the time needed for accomplishing current work and achieving development goals, applies newly developed skills, knowledge and experience to the job, recognizes and rewards development. 

• Design and analyze solutions to meet discrete product or process issues. Maintain current technical skills and business function expertise. Anticipate issues and their impact on projects and make recommendations for resolution. Considers cost of alternatives when making decisions and/or recommendations. 

• Recommends an organization design that responds to the needs of the business and provides a meaningful work experience for employees. 

• Encourage and reward decisive, effective action.  Presents information to and elicits comments from individuals and groups, facilitates group processes and teamwork. Maintain contact with team members to provide a communication link with management. Keeps management informed or personnel of project developments. 

• Supports Analysis and Design of Products or Processes: Identifies cause-effect relationships and uses technical knowledge and experiences to recommend and execute options. Integrates subsystems and components in total system design, develops specifications and customer requirements. 

• Staffs Positions: Recruits, interviews, and selects candidates to fill openings. Delegates authority appropriate to the individual and to the scope of the project. 

• Exchanges Information: Exchanges information with appropriate frequency and within a time frame to maximize its utility and promote cross functional collaboration; verifies that the message was understood. 

• Adapts Information to Customer Needs: Delivers communications tailored to the needs of the receiver, speaks and writes clearly and concisely. 

• Makes Presentations: Delivers informational presentations, communicates purpose and desired outcomes, keeps to time frames and presents organized ideas persuasively. 

• Actively Listens: Listens actively to acquire information and understand the others viewpoint. 

• Builds Relationships: Develops an understanding of others’ needs, promoting common goals, and follows through on commitments. 

• Resolves Conflicts: Faces conflicts and takes initiative to resolve issues constructively so all parties can be productive, knows when to involve others. 

• Facilitates Teamwork: Develops team vision/mission, encourages collaboration, works with team to clarify roles and meets personal commitments to the team. Compares the results with managers’ expectations. Involves staff in planning, problem solving and decision making. Creates opportunities for cross functional teamwork to improve product development cycle. 

• Direct Others and Operations: Coordinates the efforts to achieve goals, delegates work to lowest capable level, monitors status of plans/projects and gives feedback and redirects efforts when necessary, faces people problems quickly and directly. 

• Makes Decisions: Makes timely decisions, considers alternatives and evaluates risk, uses sound judgment based on facts and experience. 

• Influences Outcomes: Uses constructive techniques to persuade, convince or influence others to follow plan of action, influences policies, events through others, influences across functions without authority. 

• Establishes a Development Culture: Encourages individuals to improve their own and others' performance by seeking and providing feedback, learning from past experience, and mentoring/coaching others, accepts feedback and takes responsibility for own mistakes, provides challenges and opportunity to develop, coaches and guides to improve others' performance, holds frequent development discussions, actively exports and advances talented people.  

• Plans for Future Development Needs: Translates changes in business goals and objectives into skills, knowledge and experience needed for future work, prepares a plan for self and team that sets appropriate development goals, establishes timelines, identifies resources, and describes behavioral outcome. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree Preferably in Engineering.
• Minimum 7 years medical device knowledge of regulations and standards.
• 3 years’ experience in engineering with leadership experience.

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The base pay for this position is

$86,700.00 – $173,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Engineering

DIVISION:

AMD Molecular

LOCATION:

United States > Des Plaines : DP01

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf