Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose

Responsible for Process and Project Engineering support, project management, utilities, and equipment optimization. Lead the Process/Project engineering team in the support to manufacturing operation and capital planning generation and execution.

Responsibilities

• Project definition, request capital expenditure (RCE) development, engineering cost estimate, design, project plan integration, construction, commissioning, qualification, and startup.

• Manage and lead the implementation of the Capital Plan and LRP. Support the capital planning process for major investments in Facilities/Utilities/Equipment.

• Accountable for all processes, policies and procedures related to Capital and Facilities Planning, Engineering Best practices and Systems and the Engineering Center of Excellence and regulatory agencies regulations and requirements.

• Define and document expectations related to Good Engineering Practice and Project Execution Methodology while tracking project execution for targeted projects and report performance metrics.

• Develop strategic Long-Range Planning (LRP) related to capacity, pipeline technology assessment, facility asset utilization, and capital investments.

• Accountable for the daily supervision of process/project engineers, engineering technicians, CAD operators and contractors for field engineering resources, as applicable. Mentor engineering staff and serve as a project technical leader.

• Manage expense budget, including outside contractor and engineering services. Manage outside engineering firm’s contracts for the design and engineering of large and/or specialized projects. Assure contractor performance and their compliance with AbbVie and regulatory agencies regulations and requirements.

• Assure that the required engineering and commissioning documents are filed in the Technical Documentation Library.

• Manage Engineering Change Management process. Ensures that engineering changes are managed in accordance with the Quality Policies and Change Review Board.

• “Assure fulfillments of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) requirements and compliance obligations, promote continuous improvement, and consider EHS aspects during the design and change process.”

Significant work activities:

• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

• Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

• Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Science, Engineering preferred. Master's Degree preferred. Minimum of eight (8) years of significant engineering and/or operational experience is required.

• Minimum of three (3) years of experience managing direct reports is required.

• Strong Engineering lead role experience in the Pharma industry. High technical knowledge in Bulk Substance and Drug product facilities in the field of Process/Project Engineering and Project Management.

• Technical background in medical devices, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology industries is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated consistent technical contributions and accomplishments. Significant contribution to product or process development or improvement through creative application of technical effort will equally be recognized.

• Strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Experience working on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors. Exercises judgment and advises management as to the appropriate actions.

• Able to interact and communicate with Senior Management and other groups within AbbVie engineering network and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborators.

• Has demonstrated competency with financial systems and in fiscal control.

• Excellent verbal and written communication in both English and Spanish

• Computer literate including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.