Senior Manager, Infrastructure Project

AbbVie; Durham (NC); Presencial; USD 125 000 - 237 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

AbbVie in Durham, North Carolina, is recruiting a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Project to join the core startup leadership team on a new manufacturing campus. You will lead and coordinate cross-functional workstreams to deliver complex infrastructure packages, from utilities to laboratories, ensuring on-time delivery and safety.

This role requires 10+ years in engineering or capital projects, a bachelor's degree in engineering, and strong leadership, planning, and contract management skills to

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• Advanced degree, PMP certification, or relevant credentials are preferred.
• At least 10 years of relevant engineering or capital-project experience.

Responsabilidades

• Lead infrastructure projects from planning to turnover, delivering on scope, schedule and budget.
• Coordinate design reviews and vendor information, ensuring integration and constructability with cGMP standards.
• Provide technical guidance and manage contracts, procurement and change control across delivery teams.

Conhecimentos

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Advanced degree / PMP certification

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• Compensation: USD 124,500 - USD 236,500 - 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

New to North Carolina. Known for pursuing breakthroughs in medicine.

Ready to join our team?

At AbbVie, we bring together talented people and innovative science to develop medicines that help patients. Now, we’re bringing that commitment to Durham, North Carolina, with a new manufacturing campus that will expand our ability to produce medicines and create opportunities in the Research Triangle.

The campus will integrate advanced manufacturing, laboratory technologies and AI to support the production of immunology, oncology and neuroscience medicines. The first phase will include manufacturing facilities, next-generation laboratories, a warehouse, administrative offices and employee wellness facilities.

We are now recruiting ourSenior Manager, Infrastructure Project as part of the core start up leadership team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The job leads technical workstreams and contributes to program outcomes by developing actionable methods and analyses, collaborating with cross‑functional partners to integrate technical solutions throughout the lifecycle, and advising on complex technical decisions and risks.

Defines project design and engineering planning for assigned projects. Leads system, equipment, and technology installations, ensuring safe integration, commissioning readiness, and on‑time delivery. Assesses project processes and resolves operational or technical issues.

Delivers operational improvements, business value delivery, and site production efficiency through effective project execution. Provides technical guidance to junior engineers and collaborates with cross‑functional teams, ensuring integration of systems, equipment, and technologies. Delivers high‑quality technical outputs for complex projects and programs; defines and validates methods, documents results and key assumptions, ensures adherence to applicable standards and controls, and communicates technical progress, impacts and recommended mitigations to project leads and stakeholders.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Deliver assigned infrastructure projects: Manage assigned campus development consisting of a set of buildings or systems from utilities, Spine, warehouse, laboratory, administration, cafeteria, laboratories, car park, offices and office buildings. Translate overall program or campus objectives into clearly defined package deliverables and deliver against approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
• Own project planning, cost, and schedule control: Develop and maintain package or building execution plans, budgets, forecasts, schedules, milestones, and performance measures. Align package plans with the integrated campus schedule, monitor commitments and progress, address variances, and provide timely, accurate reporting to the Infrastructure Project Director.
• Coordinate design and technical integration: Represent assigned infrastructure scopes in design development led by Global Engineering. Consolidate campus and Operations requirements, coordinate design reviews and vendor information, and track technical decisions to closure. Integrate constructability, maintainability, local conditions, and interfaces with adjacent projects into package design.
• Execute procurement and support contractor selection: Develop package procurement plans aligned with the approved portfolio strategy. Prepare scopes of work and technical requirements, coordinate bid evaluations with Procurement and technical stakeholders, assess vendor capability and delivery risk, and recommend suppliers and contractors for approval. Track critical equipment and material deliveries.
• Administer contracts and control scope changes: Implement approved contracting approaches for assigned packages, supporting contract formation and administering scope, deliverables, and contractor obligations within delegated authority. Maintain change records, evaluate cost, schedule, quality, and interface impacts, and obtain required approvals before authorizing changes or commitments.
• Coordinate construction execution, safety, and quality: Partner with the Construction Director and designated construction managers to coordinate package execution, resolve design and field interfaces, and monitor contractor progress and quality. Work with EHS, Quality, and Engineering to address safety, compliance, inspection, and permitting requirements; elevate unresolved issues without duplicating construction‑management accountability.
• Drive commissioning readiness, handover, and closeout: Coordinate with Commissioning and Start‑up, Qualification, and Operations teams to establish package acceptance and turnover requirements early. Ensure construction completion, testing, qualification or verification as applicable, punch‑list resolution, documentation, training support, and asset handover are completed. Close contracts and capture lessons learned to improve delivery across the portfolio.

Qualifications

Education

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Preferred: Advanced degree, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or relevant engineering or project‑management credentials.

Experience

• Recommended minimum: At least 10 years of relevant engineering or capital‑project experience, including direct accountability for delivering complex infrastructure projects or major packages.
• Demonstrated delivery experience spanning planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or comparable regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience with campus utilities, building systems, site infrastructure, or support facilities, including interfaces with cGMP manufacturing operations.
• Hands‑on experience managing scope, budgets, forecasts, schedules, risk, contractor performance, procurement activities, contract administration, and change control.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating designers, contractors, vendors, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, Procurement, EHS, and Quality in a matrixed organization.
• Preferred: Greenfield campus or major expansion experience; commissioning and qualification exposure; and implementation of Factory of the future concepts relevant to infrastructure delivery.

Core skills and capabilities

• Project execution and accountability: Converts portfolio priorities into practical package plans and drives deliverables to completion within delegated authority.
• Technical and design integration: Understands utilities, infrastructure, building systems, and applicable cGMP design principles; integrates operational requirements, vendor inputs, and project interfaces.
• Financial and schedule management: Uses budgets, forecasts, integrated schedules, milestones, and performance measures to identify variances and drive corrective action.
• Commercial and contract management: Develops clear scopes, evaluates bids, administers approved contracts, monitors contractor obligations, and applies disciplined change control.
• Risk management and problem‑solving: Anticipates constraints, evaluates options and delivery impacts, implements mitigation, and escalates decisions with clear recommendations.
• Construction and commissioning readiness: Coordinates safety, quality, completion, testing, turnover documentation, and operational handover across delivery teams.
• Team leadership and stakeholder influence: Directs and coaches assigned team members, builds accountability, and aligns stakeholders without relying on formal reporting authority.
• Communication and continuous improvement: Provides concise status and decision updates, maintains reliable project records, and applies lessons learned to improve delivery consistency.

Additional Information

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 the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin 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 toparticipatein our long‑term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company’s sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat 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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