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Job Description
ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.
Job Description
New to North Carolina. Known for pursuing breakthroughs in medicine.
Ready to join our team?
At AbbVie, we bring together talented people and innovative science to develop medicines that help patients. Now, we’re bringing that commitment to Durham, North Carolina, with a new manufacturing campus that will expand our ability to produce medicines and create opportunities in the Research Triangle.
The campus will integrate advanced manufacturing, laboratory technologies and AI to support the production of immunology, oncology and neuroscience medicines. The first phase will include manufacturing facilities, next-generation laboratories, a warehouse, administrative offices and employee wellness facilities.
To learn more about this investment, please visit https://www.abbvie.com/abbvie-north-carolina-manufacturing.html
We are now recruiting our Sr. Manager Utilities.
Key Responsibilities
The job leads technical workstreams and contributes to program outcomes by developing actionable methods and analyses, collaborating with cross‑functional partners to integrate technical solutions throughout the lifecycle, and advising on complex technical decisions and risks.
Designs site-level processes and improvements by defining operating ranges, critical parameters, and acceptance criteria that support efficient, high-quality production.
Leads process improvement and optimization workstreams, defining the technical approach, coordinating trial execution with production, and documenting results.
Conducts process validation and troubleshooting for manufacturing processes manufacturing processes by analyzing performance data, investigating deviations, and drafting corrective actions and supporting documentation for review and approval
Establishes technical standards for process documentation and change execution, ensuring methods, assumptions, and evidence are complete.
Guides engineers through technical decisions by running working sessions, documenting decision logic, and tracking actions to closure.
Delivers high‑quality technical outputs for complex projects and programs; defines and validates methods, documents results and key assumptions, ensures adherence to applicable standards and controls, and communicates technical progress, impacts and recommended mitigations to project leads and stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for the design and implementation of critical and clean utility systems, including Water for Injection (WFI), clean steam, process gases, and associated generation, storage, distribution, monitoring, and control systems.
Lead utilities design reviews and provide operational input throughout project execution, ensuring systems are designed for safe and reliable operation, maintainability, capacity, redundancy, energy efficiency, lifecycle cost, and future manufacturing requirements.
Provide technical and operational leadership for process waste systems, including waste inactivation, waste neutralization, and waste equalization systems, ensuring appropriate integration with manufacturing processes, environmental requirements, and site infrastructure.
Lead the start-up, commissioning, and qualification of utility and waste systems, including development and execution of system turnover strategies, commissioning plans, acceptance testing, qualification activities, punch-list resolution, and transition from the project organization to site operations.
Establish and manage the utilities operating organization following system turnover, including operating procedures, preventive maintenance strategies, training and qualification of personnel, staffing plans, operating metrics, alarm response, system monitoring, and day-to-day utility operations.
Ensure sustained safe, compliant, and reliable performance of utility systems, partnering with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Validation, EHS, Automation, and Maintenance to manage system performance, deviations, change control, reliability improvements, capacity planning, and continuous improvement throughout the asset lifecycle.
Auto req ID
487108BR
Minimum Education Required
Bachelors
Qualifications
Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities
You will have in-depth knowledge typically obtained through advanced education and experience; with a Bachelors degree in Engineering or similiar related discipline and 8 years relevant industry experience.
Experience in drug substance, drug product, biologics and/or aseptic sterile fill finish is required
You will have demonstrated your ability to partner cross functionally with successful teams in a GMP manufacturing environment and prior experience in a start up facility is preferred
Travel: Yes, 50% of the Time
Pay Range:
$ 124500 - 236500 USD
City*
Durham
State*
North Carolina
Job_Category
Operations
Job Code
Manufacturing Manufacturing
Affiliate Sponsor
AbbVie
Salary Range
Not Disclosed
ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.
Job Description
New to North Carolina. Known for pursuing breakthroughs in medicine.
Ready to join our team?
At AbbVie, we bring together talented people and innovative science to develop medicines that help patients. Now, we’re bringing that commitment to Durham, North Carolina, with a new manufacturing campus that will expand our ability to produce medicines and create opportunities in the Research Triangle.
The campus will integrate advanced manufacturing, laboratory technologies and AI to support the production of immunology, oncology and neuroscience medicines. The first phase will include manufacturing facilities, next-generation laboratories, a warehouse, administrative offices and employee wellness facilities.
To learn more about this investment, please visit https://www.abbvie.com/abbvie-north-carolina-manufacturing.html
We are now recruiting our Sr. Manager Utilities.
Key Responsibilities
The job leads technical workstreams and contributes to program outcomes by developing actionable methods and analyses, collaborating with cross‑functional partners to integrate technical solutions throughout the lifecycle, and advising on complex technical decisions and risks.
Designs site-level processes and improvements by defining operating ranges, critical parameters, and acceptance criteria that support efficient, high-quality production.
Leads process improvement and optimization workstreams, defining the technical approach, coordinating trial execution with production, and documenting results.
Conducts process validation and troubleshooting for manufacturing processes manufacturing processes by analyzing performance data, investigating deviations, and drafting corrective actions and supporting documentation for review and approval
Establishes technical standards for process documentation and change execution, ensuring methods, assumptions, and evidence are complete.
Guides engineers through technical decisions by running working sessions, documenting decision logic, and tracking actions to closure.
Delivers high‑quality technical outputs for complex projects and programs; defines and validates methods, documents results and key assumptions, ensures adherence to applicable standards and controls, and communicates technical progress, impacts and recommended mitigations to project leads and stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for the design and implementation of critical and clean utility systems, including Water for Injection (WFI), clean steam, process gases, and associated generation, storage, distribution, monitoring, and control systems.
Lead utilities design reviews and provide operational input throughout project execution, ensuring systems are designed for safe and reliable operation, maintainability, capacity, redundancy, energy efficiency, lifecycle cost, and future manufacturing requirements.
Provide technical and operational leadership for process waste systems, including waste inactivation, waste neutralization, and waste equalization systems, ensuring appropriate integration with manufacturing processes, environmental requirements, and site infrastructure.
Lead the start-up, commissioning, and qualification of utility and waste systems, including development and execution of system turnover strategies, commissioning plans, acceptance testing, qualification activities, punch-list resolution, and transition from the project organization to site operations.
Establish and manage the utilities operating organization following system turnover, including operating procedures, preventive maintenance strategies, training and qualification of personnel, staffing plans, operating metrics, alarm response, system monitoring, and day-to-day utility operations.
Ensure sustained safe, compliant, and reliable performance of utility systems, partnering with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Validation, EHS, Automation, and Maintenance to manage system performance, deviations, change control, reliability improvements, capacity planning, and continuous improvement throughout the asset lifecycle.
Auto req ID
487108BR
Minimum Education Required
Bachelors
Qualifications
Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities
You will have in-depth knowledge typically obtained through advanced education and experience; with a Bachelors degree in Engineering or similiar related discipline and 8 years relevant industry experience.
Experience in drug substance, drug product, biologics and/or aseptic sterile fill finish is required
You will have demonstrated your ability to partner cross functionally with successful teams in a GMP manufacturing environment and prior experience in a start up facility is preferred
Travel: Yes, 50% of the Time
Pay Range:
$ 124500 - 236500 USD
City*
Durham
State*
North Carolina
Job_Category
Operations
Job Code
Manufacturing Manufacturing
Affiliate Sponsor
AbbVie
Salary Range
Not Disclosed
Salary : $124,500 - $236,500