Team Leader Equipment Tech (Wafer Fab) - Abbott Point of Care (Ottawa)

Abbott Laboratories; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare leader where your role as Team Leader for Wafer Fab Equipment will empower smarter medical decisions. In this dynamic position, you will oversee the maintenance and performance of critical fabrication equipment, ensuring minimal downtime and maximizing efficiency. Collaborate with talented professionals across various departments to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare industry while growing your career in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Health and wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Employee recognition programs

Qualifications

• 6+ years in multi-product manufacturing with automated equipment.
• Experience managing teams across multiple shifts.
• Strong organization and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervise maintenance and repair of wafer fabrication equipment.
• Develop preventive maintenance schedules for efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and production teams on challenges.

Skills

Team Management

Technical Aptitude

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Problem Solving

GMP Knowledge

ISO and FDA Standards

Lean Six Sigma

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

3-year Diploma in Technology

Tools

MS Office Suite

CAD

TrakSuite

Job description

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Ottawa, Ontario location in the Point of Care, 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. Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology. As the Team Leaders, Wafer Fab Equipment, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of all wafer fabrication equipment. This role involves overseeing maintenance schedules, troubleshooting equipment issues, and leading a team of technicians to support production goals.

What You’ll Do

• Supervise and coordinate the maintenance and repair of wafer fabrication equipment, ensuring minimal downtime.

• Ensure equipment downtime solutions are sustainable, durable and enduring.

• Develop and implement preventive maintenance schedules to maximize equipment efficiency.

• Monitor equipment performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.

• Collaborate with engineering and production teams to address equipment-related challenges.

• Motivate employees across all shifts on a regular basis through interpersonal interactions, personal example, mentoring, fostering creativity / innovation, delegation / empowerment, providing opportunities to learn, positive reinforcement, goal setting, sharing relevant technical / business information, and providing ongoing feedback.

• Ensure training and mentorship of technicians on equipment operation, maintenance, and safety protocols.

• Take steps to grow the subject matter expertise of the technicians in order that complicated equipment issues can be effectively addressed on all shifts.

• Manage performance of team members and assist them with their development and succession planning.

• Maintain accurate records of equipment maintenance, repairs, and upgrades.

• Ensure equipment changes are validated or verified according to current quality standards, maintaining the validated state of all processes.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards, our quality management system and safety regulations.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and production efficiency.

• Establish an organizational climate conducive to maximizing employee potential and productivity, retention of key personnel, a team approach to work and problem solving. Foster a culture of data driven and systematic problem resolution, where the simplest and most robust solutions are of primary focus.

• Regularly review current results and create plans for overcoming upcoming challenges. Ensure staff are assigned to the most important issues or projects.

• Emphasize corporate values, mission and long-term goals rather than short-term objectives or perspectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Electronics, or a related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred or 3-year diploma in technology or related discipline.

• Experience with management of Direct Labour, shift work, managing teams across multiple shifts is preferred.

• Minimum of 6 years of work experience in a multi-product manufacturing environment; experience with automated equipment, change control, capital projects and CAPA systems

• Strong technical aptitude, applying reasoning and analytical abilities to accomplish work objectives, emphasizing logic and data when assessing situations and identifying possible courses of action and/or opportunities.

• Ability to operate independently with a broad scope of responsibilities under minimal supervision and under challenging time constraints

• Inclination to remain calm and convey urgency effectively during equipment downtime or technical/safety emergencies

• Ability to clearly, concisely and accurately explain technical issues, maintenance procedures and troubleshooting methods to technicians, engineers and leaders, appropriately tailoring communication style, depending on the audience, both orally and in writing

• Experience handling disagreements or equipment-related challenges with diplomacy and professionalism

• Ability to form and develop interpersonal, professional relationships; inclination to display socially and professionally appropriate behavior

• Knowledge of GMP, ISO and FDA Quality standards, safety regulations and Lean Six Sigma.

• Strong organization, time- and project-management skills.

• Ability to use various types of software (e.g. MS-Office suite, CAD, TrakSuite, etc.)

• Knowledge of statistical methods for process and quality control

• Ability to identify and evaluate unique ways to improve the organization (quality, cost reductions, use of resources, policies/procedures, products); generating useful new ideas, approaches or techniques.

• Self-motivated with demonstrated leadership abilities to challenge status quo.

• Strong customer focus and ability to deliver results.

• Ability to make business decisions despite uncertainty.

• Demonstrated ability to influence stake holders, effectively work and communicate in matrix organization (Supply Chain, Operations, Product Engineering, Supplier Engineering, R&D, IT, Quality Assurance, etc.)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Abbott strives to promote and maintain an inclusive, high-performing culture that allows all employees to reach their full potential and contribute to Abbott’s success. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.