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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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@abbvie) .

Job Description

General Introduction to Function and job description:

Chemical Engineers support API projects through all the phases of late stage development, commercialization, product life cycle. This position will be responsible to ensure processes can be run safely, addressing scale-up issues and developing and implementing robust API process steps from the lab to a manufacturing environment. Once commercialized, the process engineer is responsible for continuous improvement activities, technical transfer to manufacturing sites, and resolution of technical manufacturing issues in a commercial setting. Effective cross functional interactions with quality and regulatory functions and on-site manufacturing personnel is key for successful job performance.

Purpose

Independently generate precise, reliable and reproducible data in a timely manner. Demonstrate experimental precision and strong data interpretation skills and should possess understanding of core discipline.

Desired skills:

• Conceives, designs, conducts research and development for major process or product design improvement.

• Develops processes and programs to optimize or achieve the plant efficiency, product quality, cost control, customer specification or product design changes.

• Investigates troubleshooting of product failures and recommends remediation direction.

• Writes technical documents required to appropriate quality file or regulatory agent.

• Experience and/or education with API and/or natural product processes in pharmaceuticals.

Major Responsibilities:

Level of Expertise:

• Conceptualizes and implements approaches using combinations of engineering scientific principles.

• Utilizes knowledge of engineering, literature, and experience to guide decision for complex situations

• Must have an proven understanding of the cause/effect relationship to use for improvements to multiple processes and products.

• Functions as technical expert consultant within the immediate area.

• Designs and coordinates experiments to test hypothesis related to project outcomes; extracts the full relevance of scientific observations.

• Applies extensive, advanced scientific knowledge to multidisciplinary projects.

• Assures experimental quality through sound experimental design and provides advice on experimental design.

• Implements new technical alternatives for research from literature review, industry knowledge, and development experience.

• Familiar with lab environment and safety practices.

• Applies basic computer skills (including word processing, spreadsheets, instrumentation related to corporate network systems and advanced technical software) and author advanced techniques or models (e.g., programming and control algorithms or simulations).

• Applies advanced technical writing skills to produce reports and document; write independently; evaluates the writing of others. Utilizes numerous analytical instruments, trains others in their operation.

• Anticipates, recognizes, and resolves problems. Functions as an expert in technical/functional areas.

Level of Leadership Activities:

• Is a resource for compliance quality issues and documents drafting.

• Presents results of projects both internally and externally.

• Reviews and critiques presentations for others.

• Establishes project operation criteria and technical standards for excellence. Generates new product ideas.

• Prepares and aligns impact goals with department divisional goals.

• Actively participates in cross-functional technology transfer teams including team members from development and manufacturing.

Level of Interpersonal Skill:

• Functions as a technical role model and resource/consultant to others.

• Interacts with cross functional teams and shares information. Has demonstrated technical leadership in a multi-disciplinary environment.

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience,

• Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 8 years of experience,

• PhD and no experience necessary.

• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of own scientific discipline

Additional Information

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• 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. ??

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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. ?

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