Custodian - Grounds and Sanitation L05

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Housekeeping Supervisor at the Lake County facility to lead a team of 10–15 staff, ensuring safe, compliant housekeeping across diverse manufacturing areas. The role emphasizes planning, training, and coordinating with multiple divisions to meet regulatory and safety standards.

You will oversee staffing, set goals, and implement programs, while staying current with industry techniques and environmental controls to support GMP-compliant operations.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of 10–15 housekeeping staff
• Ensure safety and regulatory compliance across facilities
• Coordinate with multiple customer divisions and departments
• Provide training and job instruction to staff and new hires
• Maintain knowledge of regulatory requirements (FDA/ISO/OSHA) and environmental controls

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, staff, train, direct, and control housekeeping activities
• Develop goals, policies, and programs aligned with corporate objectives
• Collaborate with customers to manage urgent and conflicting demands
• Ensure compliance with safety, hygiene, and regulatory standards
• Stay current with new techniques, equipment, and materials in housekeeping

Skills

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

Safety standards

Budget management

Training

Education

Associates degree

Bachelor’s degree desirable

Tools

MS Office

Maximo

SAP

Job description

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 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

Purpose : Responsible for leading and coordinating a team of approximately 10–15 housekeeping staff, including a Team Leader, to ensure housekeeping activities are performed safely, effectively, and in accordance with site procedures and applicable requirements. The role supports housekeeping across a diverse manufacturing environment, including chemical process unit operations, warehouses, classified cleanroom manufacturing areas, weigh booths, common areas, restrooms, locker rooms, and exterior areas. Ensures appropriate staffing, work coordination, quality standards, safety practices, and cleanliness expectations are consistently maintained to support safe and compliant manufacturing operations.

• Operating under the general guidance of the Section Manager, the duties of this position include but are not limited to: planning, organizing, staffing, training, directing and controlling the housekeeping activities.
• More specific duties include the developing and issuing of goals, policies, procedures and programs to produce results in accordance with the corporate objectives as well as the objectives of individual customer divisions and departments. The Supervisor must understand and work successfully with customers who often have urgent and conflicting demands. The Supervisor must also determine requirements for new and replacement tools, provide training and job instruction, know safety rules and regulations
• This position requires the individual to seek out and stay current with new techniques, equipment and materials associated with the housekeeping field. The Supervisor must provide expert technical support for green, yellow and red radioactive environments, Bio level 1, 2 and 3 environments as well as hazardous waste disposal guidelines. The individual needs to be knowledgeable in entrance and exit procedures for controlled environments, cross contamination control procedures, microbial control
• This position requires the individual to assure that all regulatory requirements are met and maintained to include FDA, GMP, OSHA, INRC, ALAC and ISO requirements, to allow research and manufacturing of pharmaceutical, chemical and products to market. The supervisor can also be called on to be a subject matter expert for housekeeping services when working with the FDA of other regulatory agencies.
• Frequently, in addition to his/hers more typical responsibilities, the incumbent will act in other assigned roles such as; team leader or work on special inter divisional project teams and/or task forces, provide temporary support for departmental projects, and be a temporary backup for his/her manager.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulatory requirements which include but are not limited to: OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119) and EPA's Risk Management Planning (RMP) rule (40 CFR 68), Mechanical Integrity programs, PCI, DOT, EPA etc.
• Creates a safety culture by setting direction to reduce or eliminate operations-related injuries or accidents, damage/loss of product or equipment, and unnecessary costs by ensuring that all equipment and facilities are maintained consistent with the safety, security, hygiene and standards set by AbbVie.

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Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Associates Degree or the equivalent experience and formal post high school technical training such an executive housekeeping certification.
• Bachelor’s degree or working toward the completion of a degree is desirable.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Maximo, SAP, SharePoint, Quick Base, WebEx, and general computer knowledge.
• At times can be required to speak in front of large groups, conduct general business meetings, lead, motivate and coach personnel.
• Proficient in business math with the ability to manage labor and supply budgets and maintain complex spread sheets for data mining performance of metrics.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements mandated by agencies such as the FDA, OSHA, INRC, ALAC, ISO.
• On call for facility/manufacturing emergencies with the ability to work outside of the core group when necessary to support all divisional clients operating within the Abbvie Lake County.

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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 employer 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 and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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