Engineer, Reliability II

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Reliability Engineer in North Chicago, Illinois, responsible for driving equipment reliability improvements. The role involves leading key equipment assets, managing reliability processes, and supporting the Maintenance Excellence Program.

The ideal candidate will hold a BS in Engineering with 2 years of experience, possessing strong technical and communication skills. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical insurance and 401(k).

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in Maintenance and/or Reliability Engineering or similar within a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience in Health Care/Pharmaceutical industry and/or Utilities processes.

Responsibilities

• Support Maintenance Excellence Program by providing reports and targeting critical equipment.
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment and safety systems.
• Develop engineering solutions to prevent repetitive failures.
• Analyze failure history and provide long-term solutions.
• Responsible for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management process.
• Generate asset management plan with preventative maintenance tasks.

Skills

Basic technical skills working with equipment

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

BS in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

The Reliability Engineer is the engineer responsible for driving continuous equipment reliability improvements by providing and coordinating technical support, and by managing the reliability improvement processes for the site, with the aim of reducing the risk levels to the business. Within the role, it will direct and provide leadership for key equipment assets that will ensure asset reliability is maintained at the highest levels, will drive for reliability of work processes, procedures and operating practices and will define, design, develop, and monitor the site’s critical asset register to provide standardized processes and procedures for the proper operation and care of key production, utility and supporting assets. Additionally, it will be in charge of the Reliability Engineering Plan, Maintenance Excellence Program (MEP) and metrics related to assets’ reliability.

Responsibilities

• Support the site’s Maintenance Excellence Program (MEP) by providing weekly and monthly reports and on targeting critical equipment assets for optimization and continuous improvement activities.
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety systems.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures, and apply knowledge in methods and processes to prevent, or reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures in site systems.
• Analyze failure history to determine the reliability characteristics of key systems, and from this analysis, develop long-term solutions to recurring issues.
• Develop and enforce an Asset Operations Plan Priorities that will ensure optimum utilization and operating efficiency of facility’s assets, and development of an Asset Maintenance Plan to ensure adequate levels of sustaining effective maintenance for each plant asset on the asset register.
• Responsible for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets and conduct root cause failure analysis (RCFA) by understanding and applying failure data analysis techniques, perform analyses of asset and production equipment performance to include asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and remaining useful life as guiding parameters.
• Generate asset management plan that includes creation of value-added preventative maintenance tasks, and determine the most effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methods to identify inherent reliability problems.
• Work with Project Engineering to review maintenance and installation plans for new equipment, and provide reliability and maintainability specifications for changes, to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
• Define an approach to risk management that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks, that could have adverse operational impact.
• Follows established guidelines to comply with regulatory agencies such as; OSHA, FDA, EPA, ETC.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering + 2 years of experience in Maintenance and/or Reliability Engineering or similar within a highly regulated manufacturing environment
• Skills / Practical Knowledge: Basic technical skills working with equipment; Health Care/Pharmaceutical industry and/or Utilities processes. Must have good interpersonal skills and good communication skills to keep all personnel involved in an activity well informed.

Benefits and Compensation

• 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. US & Puerto Rico only – visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html. US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html.