Associate Director, Engineering

at AbbVie in North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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

The Associate Director of Engineering is the technical leader for the site. They are responsible for all Engineering and Maintenance activities related to the facility and production equipment. This includes managing the following areas:

Responsibilities

+ Financial responsibility for the Maintenance and Engineering Budgets ($5MM); financial responsibility for Capital Spending (~$5MM)

+ Partner with cross-functional peers to ensure the success of the plant goals and objectives

+ Develop appropriate Engineering and Maintenance strategies aligned with the business

+ Assure his/her personnel and the personnel they serve work in a safe environment and with the proper safety tools and procedures

+ Maintain the proper compliance level in the job they perform

+ Assure the proper human resources, tools and equipment are in place to assure the expected service

+ Assure his/her personnel have the proper training and education to perform the required job and service.

+ Negotiate, secure, oversee & ensure that resources are available to meet the demands of the projects

+ Continually look for opportunities for process optimization, cost avoidance and cost reduction

+ All aspects of people leadership: setting expectations, coaching, counseling, developing, evaluating, feedback, hiring, discipline, and separations related to Engineering and Maintenance staff.

Qualifications

+ B.S in Engineering due to the technical nature of the position

+ 10+ years in engineering with exposure to equipment and facility planning, design, construction and operation in a manufacturing environment

Additional Information

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

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+ 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. ?

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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.

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.