Connected Factory Engineer

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Connected Factory Engineer to advance manufacturing data and integration platforms. You will analyze existing processes, gather user requirements, design technical capabilities, and document architectures to improve efficiency across Operations.

This hybrid role emphasizes collaboration with IT and business teams to deliver scalable, compliant solutions. The team focuses on Ignition, Kepware, OSI PI, HighByte, and AWS services to enable real-time data access, API management,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field plus 2 years of experience; or Master’s with 0 experience.
• Experience with Ignition, Kepware, OSI PI, HighByte, and/or AWS Cloud Services.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and consultative skills; able to work with clients and IT staff.
• High focus on deliverables and detail oriented; exceptional teamwork.
• Demonstrate proficiency across technologies related to software design, data integration, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing solutions and processes and identify areas for optimization.
• Gather requirements from business users and translate into technical specs.
• Design and engineer capabilities to meet business needs.
• Develop system documentation including manuals and architecture drawings.
• Build and execute test protocols to ensure solutions meet specifications.
• Write deployment instructions and implement across platforms.
• Intake, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues as alerts are received.
• Ensure systems operate securely and comply with regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable integration.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Client collaboration

Teamwork

Detail oriented

Technical troubleshooting

System integration

Programming concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree (optional/0 experience)

Tools

Ignition

Kepware

OSI PI

HighByte

AWS Cloud Services

Job 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 onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Connected Factory is a program focused on the technical stewardship of key integration capabilities and their associated platforms across Manufacturing Operations at AbbVie. The Connected Factory Engineering team willbe responsible forhelping progress the technical roadmap of platforms, accelerating the maturity of integrations between critical components of AbbVie's manufacturing shopfloor, and advancing the availability of data for advanced use cases. This will include work with Ignition, OSI PI, Kepware,HighByte, AWS Cloud Services, and many other platforms. Data and Integration capabilities that our team will support include API's and their management, IT/OT convergence, MQTT and other real-time data streaming protocols, Unified Namespacemanagement, data historization, and event-driven services.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing solutions andprocesses andidentifyareas foroptimization.
• Gather requirements from business users and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and engineer technical capabilities to meet business needs.
• Develop system documentation, including user/admin manuals, architecture drawings, and technical specifications.
• Build and execute test protocols to ensure solutions are functioning tospecification.
• Author deployment instructions and implement them across various platforms supported by the team.
• Intake, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues asthey arereported or as alerts are received.
• Ensure that systemsoperateeffectively, securely, andcomply withrelevant regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions are integrated and scalable.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the field.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, orrelatedfieldplus 2 years of experience as a Developer, Systems Analyst/Admin, Engineer/Integrator, or similar role; or Master's degree with 0 experience.
• Experience working with Ignition, Kepware, OSI PI,HighByte, and/or AWS Cloud Services.
• Excellent analytical,communicationand consultative skills and the ability to work efficiently with clients and other IT management and staff.
• High focus on deliverables and detail oriented.
• Mustexhibitexceptional teamwork skills.
• Demonstrate highproficiencyacross a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.

Preferred:

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and their capabilities
• Experience in pharma,healthcare or regulated industry

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemay ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may bemodified in thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremains in the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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