Process Support Engineer

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL

127d

About The Position

An engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or closely related discipline is preferred.
• 2+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience.
• Has demonstrated competency within a discipline.
• Possesses a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Demonstrates judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.
• Has a technical background in health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.
• Coordinates and monitors activities/projects.
• Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those assigned to project; makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within discipline.
• Employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns when appropriate.
• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks.
• Anticipates future directions.
• Benchmarks internally and externally.
• Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities.
• Independently executes the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments.
• Creates/modified designs for intermediate problems.
• Designs/modifies more complex components/processes; writes detailed design specifications.
• Predicts patterns/trends.
• Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations.
• Improves methods/designs/processes.
• Recognizes and implements good ideas/innovations/costs reductions; consistently generates/adopts original solutions to problems and reduces them to practices.
• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
• Resolves underlying problems.
• Identifies full range of customer/client needs and proposes solutions to address them; makes alterations in products or services to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer need.
• Directs the efforts of others such as technicians and outside resources.
• Performs tasks such as writing Requests for Capital Expenditures (RCEs), safety/quality checklists, scope documents, etc.
• Develops and executes validation protocols.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees
• Short-term incentive programs
• Long-term incentive programs

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree