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Engineer, Reliability II

BioSpace
North Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 5/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/5/2026
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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

The Reliability Engineer is the engineer responsible for driving continuous equipment reliability improvements by providing and coordinating technical support, and by managing the reliability improvement processes for the site, with the aim of reducing the risk levels to the business. Within the role, it will direct and provide leadership for key equipment assets that will ensure asset reliability is maintained at the highest levels, will drive for reliability of work processes, procedures and operating practices and will define, design, develop, and monitor the sites critical asset register to provide standardized processes and procedures for the proper operation and care of key production, utility and supporting assets. Additionally, it will be in charge of the Reliability Engineering Plan, Maintenance Excellence Program (MEP) and metrics related to assets reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Support the sites Maintenance Excellence Program (MEP) by providing weekly and monthly reports and on targeting critical equipment assets for optimization and continuous improvement activities.
  • Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety systems.
  • Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures, and apply knowledge in methods and processes to prevent, or reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures in site systems.
  • Analyze failure history to determine the reliability characteristics of key systems, and from this analysis, develop long-term solutions to recurring issues.
  • Develop and enforce an Asset Operations Plan Priorities that will ensure optimum utilization and operating efficiency of facilitys assets, and development of an Asset Maintenance Plan to ensure adequate levels of sustaining effective maintenance for each plant asset on the asset register.
  • Responsible for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets and conduct root cause failure analysis (RCFA) by understanding and applying failure data analysis techniques, perform analyses of asset and production equipment performance to include asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and remaining useful life as guiding parameters.
  • Generate asset management plan that includes creation of value-added preventative maintenance tasks, and determine the most effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methods to identify inherent reliability problems.
  • Work with Project Engineering to review maintenance and installation plans for new equipment, and provide reliability and maintainability specifications for changes, to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
  • Define an approach to risk management that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks, that could have adverse operational impact.
  • Follows established guidelines to comply with regulatory agencies such as; OSHA, FDA, EPA, ETC.


Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering. Experience required.
  • Maintenance Experience or similar - 2 years Reliability Engineering Experience or similar - 2 years Total combined minimum years of experience required - 2 years (not necessarily the sum of the above)
  • Skills / Practical Knowledge: Basic technical skills working with equipment; Health Care/Pharmaceutical industry and/or Utilities processes. Must have good interpersonal skills and good communication skills to keep all personnel involved in an activity well informed.


Key Stakeholders

Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Change, Quality Assurance

Additional Information

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

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.


Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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