Housekeeping Supervisor

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 Abbott Park, IL location within the GES Global Engineering Services Division.

The supervisor for Lake County Housekeeping is responsible for establishing and enforcing the policies and procedures for the department whether they be in the technical, personnel or administrative areas. The position is responsible for the work of between 10 – 20 housekeeping employees and directly supervises the activities of group leaders. The supervisor must plan work activities, provide training, tools and equipment for the housekeepers to safely, effectively preform their functions.

The supervisor also coordinates work activities with other trade groups, engineers, and production personnel to maximize the efforts of Lake County. This position works out of Lake County and is second shift. You will work from 2:00 pm - 11:30 pm.

What You’ll Work On

• Operating under the general guidance of the section manager, the duties of this position include but are not limited to:
• Planning, organizing, staffing, training, directing, and controlling the housekeeping activities for Abbott Lake County.
• More specific duties include the developing goals, policies, procedures, and programs to produce results in accordance with the corporate objectives as well as the objectives of individual customer divisions and departments.
• The supervisor must understand and work successfully with customers who often have urgent and conflicting demands.
• The supervisor must also determine requirements for new and replacement tools, provide training and job instructions, know safety rules and regulations and be sure the housekeeping team are trained on safe work practices.
• This position requires the individual to seek out and stay current with new techniques, equipment and materials associated with the housekeeping field.
• The supervisor must provide expert technical support for green, yellow and red radioactive environments, Bio level 1,2, and 3 environments as well as hazardous waste disposal guidelines.
• The individual needs to be knowledgeable in entrance and exit procedures for controlled environments, cross contamination control procedures, microbial control procedures and aseptic cleaning techniques.
• This position requires the individual to assure that all regulatory requirements are met and maintained to include FDA, GMP, OSHA, INTC, ALAC and ISO requirements to allow manufacturing of pharmaceutical, chemical, and diagnostic products to market.
• The supervisor can also be called on to be a subject matter expert for housekeeping services when working with the FDA of other regulatory agencies.
• Frequently, in addition to his/her more typical responsibilities, the incumbent will act in other assigned roles such as team leader or work on special interdivisional project teams and/or task forces, provide temporary support for…