Technical Services and Engineering Manager

Abbott Laboratories; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories in New Zealand is seeking an experienced Technical Services and Engineering Manager to lead engineering, facilities, utilities and capital project execution at the Waikato Pokeno site.

You will set strategic direction, allocate technical resources, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring compliance and safety across operations. Strong leadership and stakeholder skills are essential for advancing site performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple engineering projects in a complex environment.
• Well-organised and tech-savvy with ability to drive priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, facilities, utilities, capital projects at the site.
• Develop asset care roadmaps to ensure equipment reliability.
• Set strategy and manage technical resource allocation.
• Innovate maintenance and engineering solutions with business functions.
• Attract, develop and retain diverse staff with training and succession planning.
• Foster engagement and inclusivity through communication and collaboration.
• Design long- and short-range capital plans to meet capacity objectives.
• Ensure compliance with policies, laws and regulations.
• Manage site budgets and cost-improvement strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Project management

Organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

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.

Abbott is about the power of health.

For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

The Opportunity

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure® and Glucerna® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life. As the Technical Services and Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering, facilities, utilities, capital project execution and maintenance support for the site. Provide short and long-range capital project planning and execution. Act as a liaison between the site and functions outside the site such as Division, Corporate, government agencies and other groups. Serve as a member of the site senior staff leadership team.

What You’ll Do

• Lead engineering, facilities, utilities, capital project execution and maintenance support to the site.
• Develop asset care roadmaps for these areas to ensure expected equipment and process reliability is achieved.
• Set strategy and manage technical resource allocation process.
• In collaboration with key business functions, innovate and execute maintenance & engineering solutions that deliver productivity, quality and efficiencies that meet and exceed cost improvement targets.
• Attract, develop and retain a diverse qualified staff through effective training, succession planning strategies and ongoing performance feedback.
• Drive a culture of engagement and inclusivity throughout the organization through clear communication, collaboration and recognition.
• Design site long-range and short-range capital plans ensuring site is equipped with the infrastructure needed to meet or exceed capacity objectives.
• Monitors quality of implementation against overall project / program / site objectives.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all functions of the organization and resolves cross-functional challenges while influencing these functions to create the best possible solution for Abbott.
• Ensure compliance to all applicable business policies, laws and regulations.
• Establish short and long-range engineering, facilities, utilities and maintenance strategic objectives for the site.
• Fosters an environment of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Manage contractors and vendors executing work at the site.
• Manage the financial performance of the department in accordance with the planned budgets and develop strategies for cost improvement.
• Manage site capital and project expense plan.
• Ensure utilities are provided to site operations at all times.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Environmental Science, Technical discipline, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple engineering projects in a complex environment.
• Well-organised, technologically adept, and able to drive priorities effectively.

Location: This position is based in Waikato District > Pokeno.

JOB FAMILY: Engineering

DIVISION: ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain

LOCATION: New Zealand > Waikato: Pokeno Plant

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)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is N/A In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.