A biopharmaceutical company based in Chicago, Illinois, AbbVie makes and markets advanced therapies and medicines to treat serious illnesses and medical conditi
Director, Process Safety and Design
Location
Illinois
Posted
27 days ago
Salary
$160.5K - $305K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Director, Process Safety and Design
AbbVie
Director, Process Safety and Design - North Chicago, IL, USA - Employees work in a hybrid mode - Full-time - Salary Min: 160500 - Salary Max: 305000 - Workday Global Grade: 21 - Compensation: USD 160,500 - USD 305,000 - yearly Company Description About AbbVie 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. Job Description Reporting directly to the Vice President of Global Engineering, this role will have high visibility to the Operations executive leadership team as a key leader and globally recognized Subject Matter Expert - sharing your knowledge and expertise to ensure that we deliver best-in-class process design in the projects that we execute and throughout our global manufacturing network. In this role, you will be expected to bring new ideas, industry best practices and innovative solutions so that we are continuously ensuring our manufacturing facilities operate at the highest standards of engineering design and process safety. Responsibilities: - You will be a trusted partner and establish process safety strategy for the global manufacturing network, providing Leadership with regular updates on the manufacturing sites and continuous improvement initiatives related to Process Safety Management (PSM). - Successfully engaging globally across all manufacturing sites, collaborating with site leadership to create defined timelines for the implementation of process safety recommendations and continuous improvement goals. You will have joint responsibility with Site Directors to ensure that timelines are achieved. - With your team of SMEs, you will be accountable to drive global network Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) efforts, capital project design reviews, process safety training and other process safety initiatives. - Design, develop, implement and monitor the process safety roadmap for the global network with an overarching focus to drive standardized processes, reduce risk, eliminate failure modes and ensure global compliance. - Leveraging your background in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related technical field, provide technical support to global network of sites on design and process safety related issues. - Drive continuous improvement process safety culture across the network. Be a visible leader for AbbVie’s Zero. Believe it. Achieve it.(ZBA) philosophy. - Lead process safety reviews, during design and start-up for major capital projects across the global network. Provide technical input for Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCE) to ensure that significant safety and environmental aspects are properly integrated during the Front-End Planning design process for new product introduction, product-transfer between sites, and changes to existing processes and equipment. Lead the hazard screening process for Tech Transfers and New Product Introductions. - Develop network dashboard of process safety related KPIs to measure continuous improvement progress. Maintain currency with industry best practices, Best Available Technologies (BAT), and trends. Share this knowledge with peers and leadership. - With your team, support the process safety element of internal EHS audits to ensure compliance with applicable standards and policies, adoption of best practices to identify and manage risk, and conformance to company directives. - Experienced people leader with proven responsibility for talent selection, talent development and performance management. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree required in Chemical Engineering, or other technical field preferably in engineering or life sciences. Master's degree not required, but preferred. - Experience leading and coaching a diverse team to success, adapting your leadership style as needed to excel. - Ability to partner with, influence and guide decision making at global senior leadership level. - 15+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and/or chemical industries in engineering or manufacturing support environment. - Demonstrated experience in process engineering, process design or a technical safety discipline. - 30% travel with this role due to the global nature of the position 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 long-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.
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