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 management of Production projects that improve manufacturing efficiency and safety, decrease costs, decrease opportunity for human error, or increase compliance. Works in concert with peers in other departments to meet project timelines. Responsible for tracking the transfer, implementation and monitoring of projects. Uses SAP, LIMS, PI, and other systems, programs, and databases to input, verify, monitor and analyze pertinent data. Able to identify opportunities for improvement of manufacturing and business processes. Proposes, plans and facilitates the implementation of improvement solutions. Responsible for Inventory maintenance and production tracking.
Responsibilities
- Applies knowledge, experience and technical skills to understand Production objectives, to provide support to Production initiatives, to execute systems and procedures efficiently and compliantly, evaluates systems for improvement potential. Use standard practices to ensure inter-group consistency. Works, within established systems to improve Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance.
- Schedules work tasks, with limited assistance, to support project/campaign timelines. Circulates documents to reviewers with limited assistance, responds to comments and questions. Manages document review and approval to meet project timelines.
- Exercises judgment within generally defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Tracks ongoing problems and gathers information for analysis. Analyze data to develop solutions to general-level problems. Presents a potential solution to management/senior personnel and with assistance creates an implementation plan.
- Assist in the execution of validation activities for the manufacturing equipment. Provide technical assistance related to the manufacturing equipment. Assist in the troubleshooting of the manufacturing equipment.
- Establish requirements and assist in the implementation of changes to the Process Control System.
- Investigates events in production that have quality or compliance impact. Leads or participates in RCPS or FMEA sessions. Documents investigation outcomes.
- Transfers methods into Production instructions. Provides training to ensure successful rollout of new methods.
- Responsible for Inventory maintenance and production tracking. Subject matter expert in SAP for inventory and production. Track and report bulk usages. Support production in inventory management. Interface with Planning to create and manage production process order numbers and batch numbers. Initiate and track blanket purchase orders for goods and services to support production. Track weekly and monthly yield performance and report to Department supervision and Finance.
- Frequently interacts with functional peer groups. Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects, schedules, etc.
- Comply with AbbVie policies and procedures, Engineering Standards and Specifications, Plant procedures, and regulatory agencies regulations and requirements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required, preferably in an engineering or related field.
- At least 5 years’ experience in all aspects of manufacturing/production processes with good writing skills.
- A working knowledge of safety, quality systems, and current Good Manufacturing Practices as applied to equipment and process steps in area of responsibility is required. Familiarity with pertinent regulatory filings. Proficiency with tech transfer process and familiarity with equipment and facilities validation.
- Must be flexible to handle multiple tasks including ability to handle pressure in a professional manner. Effectively work in a team environment. Maintain high level of energy and professionalism on the job. Build effective working relationships with customers, co-workers, cross-functioned groups, and management.
- Intermediate to High computer and MS Office skills.
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.
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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