Engineer, Reliability II

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Reliability Engineer to drive continuous equipment reliability improvements across site assets. You will lead reliability programs, analyze failure data, and develop maintenance plans to reduce downtime and risk.

The role collaborates with project engineering and operations to ensure assets meet LCAM standards. Applicants should have a BS in Engineering and at least 2 years of reliability experience in pharma/utilities, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering or equivalent technical degree.
• 2+ years in reliability engineering or similar role.
• Experience in healthcare/pharmaceutical or utilities environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support MEP and reliability programs with weekly/monthly reports.
• Improve reliability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety systems.
• Develop and implement asset maintenance plans and RCFA analyses.

Skills

Technical aptitude

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

BS in Engineering

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 on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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

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. Experience required.
• Maintenance Experience or similar - 2 years Reliability Engineering Experience or similar - 2 years Total combined minimum years of experience required - 2 years (not necessarily the sum of the above)
• 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.

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 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.

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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