Manufacturing Engineering Superintendent (Biologics)

AbbVie, Inc • Barceloneta, PR

32d

About The Position

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. Purpose Provides technical direction to a complex and diverse manufacturing environment to maintain product availability, maintain and enhance regulatory compliance, and optimize productivity. Manages activities and resources to ensure complete manufacturing engineering support is provided to meet manufacturing area needs. Coordinates manufacturing engineering department activities to ensure that facilities, equipment and processes required for new products are developed, qualified, validated and designed for efficient manufacturability. Provide support to Operations in terms of Equipment troubleshooting, improvement ideas assessment and implementation and events investigations. Supports the AbbVie Biologics Projects Area in the identification of Manufacturing Areas Capital needs and the subsequent implementation and validation of projects. Serve as a liaison between Manufacturing and the Supporting Departments such as Maintenance, Validation, PCS, and Engineering.

Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline is required.
• 8+ years of combined experience in significant operational experience (parenteral manufacturing).
• Strong decision making, problem solving and leadership skills to manage exempt and non-exempt personnel.
• This position requires excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to effectively lead in a team environment, adaptable to change, able to manage competing priorities, analytical and problem solving skills, and written and verbal communication skills both in English and Spanish, and a sense of business savvy.
• Must have the ability to focus, take initiative, cope with stress, and use judgment to accomplish results. High level of interpersonal skills to lead and motivate a professional, technical staff, and to deal with all levels of management and professionals within the Company; to interface and negotiate with government agencies personnel, consulting firms and external contractors. The incumbent needs the ability to manage and organize multiple priorities, and achieve results with general guidelines.
• Must have ability to walk within the plant facilities and remain standing and sitting for some periods of time.

Nice To Haves

• A post-graduate education/degree is desired, and may contribute towards the desired years of experience.

Responsibilities

• The Manufacturing Engineering Superintendent provides leadership for process engineering services support. Provide technical assistance and resolution for manufacturing equipment malfunctions, design and implementation of equipment changes and implementation of new equipment technology to improve Plant's efficiency which directly impacts the annual Plant and Division results.
• Supervise Manufacturing Engineers Identify and coordinate training as well as professional developmental needs for engineers and technical personnel, including production personnel, to maintain a well prepared technical workforce.
• Implement solutions to improve Plant Safety, Quality and Financial Performance. Drives functional performance that ensures the highest standards in quality, customer service, and regulatory compliance are met.
• Propose and/or establish corrective and preventive actions as required. Justify, develop, coordinate and implement projects within the Biologics Plant Operation.
• Provide technical expertise (Subject Matter Expert) for the investigation of events related to equipment. Propose and/or establish corrective and preventive actions as required.
• Assure that Departmental Standard Operating Procedures and Process Descriptions are maintained updated and their content is in compliance with the proper regulatory agencies.
• Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing, Validation, Maintenance and Systems groups related to the manufacturing equipment. Assist in the execution of validation activities as they relate to the equipment.
• Lead the development, recommendation, and execution of improvements to the production processes and equipment, such as yield increase, downtime reduction, cycle time reduction, etc. to improve productivity and compliance.
• Supervise the evaluation and preparation of formal investigations of process excursions related to production equipment malfunctions. Establish sound and effective corrective actions to fix root cause of events.
• Provide support to Operations Department in terms Areas Re-instatements and Maintenance activities coordination. Support the Plant Calibration Program as needed, to keep it in Compliance with procedures and regulations requirements.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees