Senior Engineer, Process Safety

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL

8h

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube. The ideal candidate will have solid technical and scientific background and/or pharmaceutical plant experience. Also he/she will have the capability to manage significant programs and determine adherence to timelines as well as influencing EHS culture across the network. Partnering and influencing senior leaders is an absolute key leadership attribute for the role.

Requirements

• Degree in Chemical/Mechanical Engineering or science with 5-7 years applicable experience
• Demonstrated experience in EHS systems is required.
• Experience working within a regulatory environment is required.
• Proven track record of influencing cultural change is required.
• Positive track record of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with internal, external clients and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully negotiate with peers, and customers, is required.
• Ability to influence, motivate and empathize with peers, supervisors, middle management and vendors to meet the set goals.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving skills, communication skills including English, excellent interpersonal and consulting skills, good organizational and computer skills, and positive customer orientation.
• Self-starter with ability to complete work independently as well as successfully lead others if needed.

Nice To Haves

• Training or experience with PHA an advantage
• Working experience as EHS Manager in a chemical or pharmaceutical setting is preferred.
• Fluent English & Italian or German is preferred

Responsibilities

• Represents MES Process Safety & Design on assigned Tech Transfer or Capital Project.
• Provide input for Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCE) to ensure that significant Process Safety aspects are properly integrated during the entire Front-End Planning Design Process for new product introduction, Product-transfer from site to site, site to Third Party Manufacturing (TPM), TPM to site and changes/upgrades to existing processes and equipment.
• Fully Lead the EHS Hazard Screening for Tech transfer and NPI
• Conduct on site audit, to ensure that on key EHS Technical programs, site comply with applicable Process Safety requirements and corporate policies, utilize best-industrial practices and best available techniques to identify and manage risk, and conform to company directives and standards.
• Complete and reviews process safety incident investigation and risk assessment screening for management of change.
• Identify and collect process safety metrics, develop site dashboard for key program, monitors EHS improvement of assigned processes.
• Champion a culture of Process Safety excellence
• Key Programs include: Technical Transfers (TT) and New Product Introduction (NPI), Engineering Capital Projects, EHS Change Management, Process Safety Management, Hazard identification and Risk Assessment: Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and Layer of Protection Assessment (LoPA), Inert Gas, Atex Area Classification, and chemical safety.

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: Senior