Project Coordinator - 1st Shift (Altavista, VA Plant)

Abbott; Altavista (VA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott, a leading healthcare company, is seeking a Plant Project Coordinator at its Altavista, VA Nutrition plant. The role involves coordinating production projects, supporting maintenance and engineering tasks, and ensuring compliance with FDA and Abbott policies.

Ideal candidates possess strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment. This on-site position offers exposure to a broad range of manufacturing activities within

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Strong leadership, written and verbal communication, and analytical skills with proficiency in computer systems.
• Motivated, self-driven, able to multitask in a dynamic, team-oriented environment with good judgment and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide manufacturing support for Operations capital projects and related training.
• Lead process improvement and troubleshooting initiatives to enhance efficiency.
• Contribute to idea generation and execution for production area improvements.
• Perform administrative duties including meetings, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Schedule maintenance and engineering work; support plant/division studies.
• Assist with new product starts and task-force initiatives.
• Help resolve equipment efficiency issues while ensuring compliance with FDA and Abbott policies.

Skills

Leadership

Written comms

Verbal comms

Analytical

Mechanical skills

Problem solving

Multitasking

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Some college preferred

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Plant Project Coordinator - Production

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

This position works out of our Altavista, VA location in the Abbott Nutrition division. 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 them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

Altavista, Va.

is one of Abbott’s largest nutrition manufacturing plants equipped with advanced technology to ensure efficient production. Working here will make you feel like you’re part of a family that works together to make a difference and help nourish millions of families around the world.

In this role, the individual will be required to interact and communicate extensively with both division and plant support personnel (Engineering, Maintenance, QA, Facilities Maintenance, Vendors, Finance, and other stakeholders as needed) to assure that projects and/or issues are addressed with little-to-no impact to operations productivity. Responsible for providing support and/or oversight in the Receiving and Ingredient Storage areas as relates to departmental projects and initiatives, process improvements, root cause/corrective action investigations, systems controls, new commodity introductions, changes to materials, supplier related issues, data collection and reports, associated documentation, and communication.

What You’ll Work On

• Manufacturing support of all Operations capital scope projects and associated technical training for crew members.
• Support and lead process improvement and technical troubleshooting/corrective action initiatives.
• Participate in BEx idea generation and implementation for the production area.
• Perform Administrative duties as required (i.e. meetings, date collection & analysis, trend reports, PM closeout, budgets, orders supplies, travel, etc).
• All other project work assigned. (Schedule maintenance and engineering work as needed, support engineering studies for plant/division, flexible work schedule).
• Support new product start-ups and/or task force participation.
• Help in assisting the team in resolving equipment efficiency issues, uptime and maintenance. You’ll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA and Abbott policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must possess strong leadership skills while demonstrating excellent written, verbal, analytical, and mechanical skills with proficiency in various computer systems and software.
• The individual must be highly motivated and self-driven to effectively manage multi-tasks in a dynamic, team-oriented environment while utilizing good judgment, effective communication, and strong problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Some college or vocational schooling preferred.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Military/Veteran friendly Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $24.65 – $49.25 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.