Supervisor, Instrumentation

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose

The Instrumentation Supervisor is responsible for establishing and enforcing the policies and procedures for the department whether they be in the technical, personnel or administrative areas for Analytical Instrumentation within a lab environment. The position is directly responsible for a staff of 10-15 non-exempt employees. The Supervisor must plan work activities, provide training, tools and equipment for employees to safely, efficiently and effectively perform their job functions. The Instrumentation Supervisor also coordinates work activities with other trades groups, engineers, and production personnel.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Operating under the general guidance of the Section Manager, the Instrumentation Supervisor’s duties include but are not limited to: planning, organizing, staffing, training, directing and controlling the activities for Abbvie Lake County.
• Develops and accesses performance reviews, goals, and overall development. Adherence to policies, procedures and programs to produce results in accordance with the corporate objectives as well as the objectives of individual customer divisions and departments. Must understand and work successfully with customers who often have urgent and conflicting demands.
• The Instrumentation Supervisor must also determine requirements for new and replacement tools, provide training and job instruction, know safety rules, regulations, and ensure that all personal are trained on safe work practices.
• Seeks out and stays current with new techniques, equipment and materials associated with the field. Provides expert technical support to direct reports for areas of responsibility.
• Assures that all regulatory requirements are met and maintained to include FDA, GMP, OSHA, and ISO requirements, to allow manufacturing of Bio-Pharmaceutical products to market. The Instrumentation Supervisor can also be called on to be a subject matter expert during audits, or working with the FDA and other regulatory agencies.
• Processes (out of tolerance) OOT’s investigations, audit responses, and corrective action.
• Acts in other assigned roles such as: team leader or working on special inter divisional project teams and/or task forces, providing temporary support for departmental projects, and temporary backup for his/her manager.
• Generates reports from work order tracking application that support internal and external compliance.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree or the equivalent experience and/or formal post high school technical training/ certification. Bachelor’s degree is desirable. This position requires at least five years of related work experience and at least two years of experience as a group leader or leadership role.
• Strong technical expertise required so as to give direction to and gauge performance of the widely diverse technical services provided by this organization.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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Salary: $62,500 - $118,500