Operations Business Line Leader

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); New Brighton (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement plan

Free education benefits

Job summary

Abbott’s St. Paul, MN location seeks a Business Line Leader I Operations to supervise the production line, manage staffing, and optimize productivity. You will coordinate labor, materials, and tooling to assemble products, while upholding quality and safety standards.

The role emphasizes leadership, training, and cross-functional collaboration across departments. You will develop direct reports, monitor daily metrics, and ensure 100% alignment with the Quality System and regulatory requirements,

Qualifications

• Experience leading production operations and teams.
• Ability to plan staffing and coordinate with HR.
• Track record of achieving productivity and quality targets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production line staffing and resource allocation.
• Train and develop direct reports; monitor performance.
• Ensure processes meet quality systems and safety standards.
• Coordinate labor, materials, and equipment for on-time delivery.
• Communicate daily with line personnel and stakeholders.
• Monitor metrics and maintain inventory targets.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Staffing planning

Training & development

Quality compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Operations

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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'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 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 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 St. Paul, MN location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

What You’ll Work On

Business Line Leader I Operations: Assists Operations Manager in overseeing the operations and personnel of the production line to maximize productivity and operating efficiencies. Oversees the coordination of labor, materials, equipment, and tooling to assemble product effectively and deliver it to inventory. Maintains a high level of product quality and traceability during product assembly. Ensures production is performed in full compliance with the Quality System and all procedural requirements. Promotes safe work environment and behaviors.

What You’ll Do

• Manages to a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
• Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, rewarding positive behavior, and applying disciplinary action as appropriate.
• Trains and certifies to all critical assembly operations and understands all line PFM's. Monitors daily work metrics and provides direction and guidance to skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
• Retains responsibility for product from initial assembly to final distribution.
• Schedules and organizes assigned manufacturing lines to achieve 100% product availability and maintain targeted levels of inventories.
• Communicates to line personnel daily while maintaining a constant line presence. Maintains a safe work environment with 100% training and compliance to applicable procedures. Responsible for achieving dept. attendance targets including immediate feedback to employees by instance. Coordinates activities related to shift starts and changes.
• Communicates with other departments and functions as needed in support of meeting operational objectives.
• Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
• Oversees personnel and processes to ensure production meets all associated quality standards. Oversees personnel and processes to ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Able to respond to internal and/or external indicators that impact the business and/or industry.
• Monitors and reports on performance to area budget.
• Influence and Leadership: Performs to the accomplishment of production line goals by: Selecting, motivating, and training capable staff; Directing activities of non-exempt employees; Ensuring training and compliance to safety, quality and performance objectives; Managing goals, objectives, and performance of subordinates; Fostering an environment of collaboration and trust between self, team subordinates and peers, support personnel, and management; Utilizing available resources and processes to ensure fairness and equity in managing accountability, rewards, and recognition; Making decisions and exercising judgment that supports the accomplishment of daily objectives.
• Planning and Organizing: Schedules manpower, material and equipment resources for their production line to effectively meet near-term demands and long-term strategies.
• Decision Making Impact: Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks and/or goals and objectives. Generally makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines as it relates to work processes or schedules in order to achieve business objectives establi