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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.
Capital Management, Reliability & Operational Excellence Manager
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 is a full time position that works out of our Abbott Park, IL location in the GES Global Engineering Services division.
The Capital Management, Reliability and Operational Excellence Manager will provide enterprise and site-level leadership to drive asset reliability, and capital replacement effectiveness, and operational excellence while fostering a high-engagement culture aligned with Abbott leadership behaviors. This role integrates capital project execution with reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, and maintenance planning & scheduling to deliver sustainable improvements in safety, quality, cost, and performance.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
- Develop and maintain a long-range capital plan for a large, complex headquarters campus (70+ buildings, 6M+ sq. ft., 3,000+ acres), aligning asset lifecycle strategies with business growth, risk reduction, compliance, and reliability objectives.
- Manage a $50M+ annual capital portfolio focused on infrastructure, utilities, facilities, and critical equipment, ensuring optimal return on investment and risk mitigation.
- Own capital cash-flow forecasting, tracking, and variance management to ensure accuracy, transparency, and financial discipline.
- Lead front-end planning (FEP), business case development, and Requests for Capital Expenditure (RFCE) documentation, ensuring scope clarity, cost certainty, and schedule integrity.
- Define technical requirements, project specifications, and bid packages; lead competitive sourcing, contractor selection, and contract negotiations.
- Provide end-to-end design, engineering, construction, and commissioning oversight, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget, and fit for long-term reliability.
- Establish and enforce capital governance, project controls, and risk management processes.
- Drive reliability improvement programs through predictive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and lifecycle asset management principles.
- Embed reliability-centered design standards into capital projects to reduce total cost of ownership and improve equipment availability.
- Partner with maintenance and operations teams to improve planning, scheduling, spare parts strategies, and failure response effectiveness.
- Analyze asset performance data to identify systemic risks, chronic failures, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Lead operational excellence initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving methodologies to improve safety, quality, cost, delivery, and uptime.
- Champion change management practices to ensure sustainable adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Standardize systems, tools, KPIs, and operating models to drive consistency, visibility, and accountability across the organization.
- Establish performance dashboards and governance routines to track reliability, maintenance effectiveness, capital performance, and operational outcomes.
- Lead and develop high-performing, cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of engagement, accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Finance, EHS, and external stakeholders to deliver integrated, site-wide results.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on asset health, capital prioritization, risk exposure, and operational readiness.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years in project management.
- 3+ years in operations, OpEx, or reliability leadership.
- Strong background in reliability, predictive maintenance, and maintenance planning & scheduling.
- Proven people leadership and change management experience.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This job description is not an exhaustive statement of duties and does not limit the assignment of additional responsibilities.
DIVISIONAL INFORMATION
General Medical Devices
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
CRM
As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
Diabetes
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Vascular
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.
Neuromodulation
Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.
Structural Heart
Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist
Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.
EP
In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
HF
In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
Diagnostics
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.
Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.
Nutrition
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.
COMPENSATION
- Base pay for this position is $113,300.00 – $226,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
INTRODUCTION
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.
Capital Management, Reliability & Operational Excellence Manager
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 is a full time position that works out of our Abbott Park, IL location in the GES Global Engineering Services division.
The Capital Management, Reliability and Operational Excellence Manager will provide enterprise and site-level leadership to drive asset reliability, and capital replacement effectiveness, and operational excellence while fostering a high-engagement culture aligned with Abbott leadership behaviors. This role integrates capital project execution with reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, and maintenance planning & scheduling to deliver sustainable improvements in safety, quality, cost, and performance.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
- Develop and maintain a long-range capital plan for a large, complex headquarters campus (70+ buildings, 6M+ sq. ft., 3,000+ acres), aligning asset lifecycle strategies with business growth, risk reduction, compliance, and reliability objectives.
- Manage a $50M+ annual capital portfolio focused on infrastructure, utilities, facilities, and critical equipment, ensuring optimal return on investment and risk mitigation.
- Own capital cash-flow forecasting, tracking, and variance management to ensure accuracy, transparency, and financial discipline.
- Lead front-end planning (FEP), business case development, and Requests for Capital Expenditure (RFCE) documentation, ensuring scope clarity, cost certainty, and schedule integrity.
- Define technical requirements, project specifications, and bid packages; lead competitive sourcing, contractor selection, and contract negotiations.
- Provide end-to-end design, engineering, construction, and commissioning oversight, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget, and fit for long-term reliability.
- Establish and enforce capital governance, project controls, and risk management processes.
- Drive reliability improvement programs through predictive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and lifecycle asset management principles.
- Embed reliability-centered design standards into capital projects to reduce total cost of ownership and improve equipment availability.
- Partner with maintenance and operations teams to improve planning, scheduling, spare parts strategies, and failure response effectiveness.
- Analyze asset performance data to identify systemic risks, chronic failures, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Lead operational excellence initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving methodologies to improve safety, quality, cost, delivery, and uptime.
- Champion change management practices to ensure sustainable adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Standardize systems, tools, KPIs, and operating models to drive consistency, visibility, and accountability across the organization.
- Establish performance dashboards and governance routines to track reliability, maintenance effectiveness, capital performance, and operational outcomes.
- Lead and develop high-performing, cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of engagement, accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Finance, EHS, and external stakeholders to deliver integrated, site-wide results.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on asset health, capital prioritization, risk exposure, and operational readiness.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years in project management.
- 3+ years in operations, OpEx, or reliability leadership.
- Strong background in reliability, predictive maintenance, and maintenance planning & scheduling.
- Proven people leadership and change management experience.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This job description is not an exhaustive statement of duties and does not limit the assignment of additional responsibilities.
DIVISIONAL INFORMATION
General Medical Devices
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
CRM
As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
Diabetes
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Vascular
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.
Neuromodulation
Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.
Structural Heart
Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist
Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.
EP
In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
HF
In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
Diagnostics
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.
Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.
Nutrition
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.
COMPENSATION
- Base pay for this position is $113,300.00 – $226,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an Operational Excellence Manager
Frame your degree as essential to the role
H-1B approval hinges on proving the job requires a specific bachelor's degree. Emphasize how your industrial engineering, operations management, or business degree directly underpins the analytical and process design work the role demands.
Target industries with consistent sponsorship track records
Manufacturing, healthcare systems, management consulting, and logistics firms sponsor Operational Excellence Managers most frequently. These sectors rely heavily on Lean and Six Sigma expertise, making a strong business case for sponsorship easier to establish.
Highlight Lean Six Sigma certification prominently
Green Belt or Black Belt certification significantly strengthens your profile. Employers and immigration attorneys use these credentials to demonstrate the specialized nature of the role, supporting the specialty occupation argument required for H-1B approval.
Pursue L-1A if you're transferring within a multinational
If you've managed teams or directed operational functions at an overseas affiliate for at least one year, the L-1A intracompany transferee visa is a strong alternative to H-1B and bypasses the lottery entirely.
Ask employers about cap-exempt sponsorship early
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and certain government-affiliated organizations are H-1B cap-exempt. If a cap-exempt employer has an Operational Excellence role, your petition can be filed at any time without waiting for the April lottery window.
Document quantifiable impact from previous roles
Sponsoring attorneys build the specialty occupation case around your specific contributions. Concrete metrics, such as cost reductions achieved, cycle times improved, or defect rates reduced, demonstrate the complexity and specialized nature of your work.
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Find Operational Excellence Manager JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does an Operational Excellence Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but it's not automatic. USCIS requires the position to normally require a bachelor's degree in a specific field like industrial engineering, operations management, or business. Roles framed around general management without a required degree field face higher scrutiny. Employers with a history of requiring a specific degree and candidates whose degree directly matches the job duties have stronger cases.
Which visa types do employers typically use to sponsor Operational Excellence Managers?
H-1B is the most common path for new hires without an existing U.S. employer relationship. L-1A is available for managers transferring from an overseas entity within the same corporate group. TN visas cover this role for Canadian and Mexican nationals when the job maps to a qualifying USMCA professional category such as industrial engineer or management consultant, depending on how the position is defined.
How competitive is H-1B sponsorship for this role, and what affects approval odds?
USCIS approvals for operations and process improvement roles have held reasonably steady, though outcomes depend heavily on how the petition is drafted. Key factors include whether the job description specifies a required degree field, whether the applicant holds a matching degree, and whether the employer can document that the role is genuinely specialized. Six Sigma credentials and quantified project outcomes strengthen the petition materially.
Where can I find Operational Excellence Manager jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international candidates and filters for roles where employers are open to sponsorship. Searching there lets you focus on companies already familiar with the H-1B or L-1 process for operations roles, which saves time compared to applying broadly and discovering sponsorship isn't available after the first interview.
Can a three-year bachelor's degree from outside the U.S. qualify me for H-1B sponsorship in this role?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS accepts three-year degrees from countries like Australia, India, and the UK as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, provided a credential evaluation confirms equivalency. Some petitions combine a three-year degree with a postgraduate qualification or relevant work experience to meet the equivalency threshold. Having a credential evaluation completed before your employer files saves time and avoids requests for additional evidence.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Operational Excellence Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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