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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Provide leadership and direction to personnel and external contractors in the delivery of maintenance activities for plant equipment and facilities. This position provides and supports the maintenance activities and operations requirements for effective delivery of maintenance services for the AP39 Drug Product Pilot Plant. The objectives of this position are to meet the maintenance needs of manufacturing operations in a manner which provides high quality, rapid response, and customer service efficiently. This position is responsible for day-to-day activities of the department including managing the department budget, performance excellence, quality of work, skills development, work load assessment and assignment, training, coaching / counseling, etc.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring equipment reliability expectations are achieved in an R&D clinical production facility.
• Provide strong leadership to the group in the coordination and execution of maintenance activities and related facilities operations activities while ensuring that good maintenance practices, department operations procedures, safety policies and quality policies are understood, communicated and followed by the department. Track performance with monthly maintenance metrics. Continually evaluate and balances production support and maintenance needs with long term strategic objectives.
• Manage all plant tools, spare parts and maintenance equipment.
• Manage facility access.
• Supports site leadership in developing Key Performance Indicators for the organization, tracks data related to KPI’s and drives for improvements.
• Serves as a project manager and site engineer for departmental and other divisional initiatives and capital projects. Leads members of the organization in the development of the budget, scope and schedule for major projects.
• Lead facility and equipment obsolescence planning, budgeting, and mitigations efforts.
• Serves as the conduit for communication within the department to ensure that leadership messages, organizational changes, and initiatives are communicated to direct reports. Also serves as the conduit for communication from direct reports back up to the area management.
• Manage activities of external support groups including plant uniforms, pest control, groundskeepers, housekeepers, and utilities.

Qualifications

• College Degree or equivalent experience. Strong problem solving and analysis skills are required. A technical degree (Engineering or Science) is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in chemical/pharmaceutical processing equipment maintenance, facilities maintenance, reliability engineering, or a combination thereof. Minimum 2 – 4 years previous supervisory / management experience.
• Experience in a cGMP environment is highly desired.

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​

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. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and 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.

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