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AbbVie Manufacturing Superintendent in North Chicago, Illinois
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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
The primary function of the Operations Department is the execution of the production plan and schedule adherence. The execution of the production plan must be done assuring optimum quality, in compliance with applicable regulations, at the lowest possible cost while maintaining a safe work place and highly motivated work force.
Superintendent 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 support from all areas is provided to meet manufacturing area needs. Coordinates Operations 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.
Responsibilities
Provide leadership for Operations. Assume total responsibility and manage all shift operation including Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse and Material/Inventory Management Systems.
Implement Engineering 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 capital projects within the Plant Operation.
Supervise the junior and senior Production Supervisors and other production personnel. Identify and coordinate training as well as professional developmental needs for personnel, including production personnel, to maintain a well prepared workforce.
Provide technical expertise (Subject Matter Expert) for the investigation of events related to manufacturing process. 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 processes and 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. Establish sound and effective corrective actions to fix root cause of events.
Coordinate with Maintenance Department the proper schedule for equipment repair and maintenance, without affecting product throughput. Coordinate activities of all the other support areas such as: Supply Chain, Warehouse, Laboratories, Utilities, S&T, and QA to maintain continuity of the operations.
Qualifications
A Bachelors Degree in Engineering or closely related discipline is highly desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence.
Desired 8+ years of combined experience in significant engineering and/or operational experience (bulk chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, utilities, biotechnology, project management). Minimum of three (3) years in supervisory experience in manufacturing environment, and/or process and/or Project management /lead experience.
A post-graduate education/degree is desired, and may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
Strong decision making, problem solving and leadership skills to manage exempt and non-exempt personnel. Engineering degree is required to understand, lead, review, motivate and communicate to a staff of graduate, professional engineers, and highly technical external consultants.
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 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.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
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.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html