Senior Principal Research Scientist Engineering

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

A global biopharmaceutical company is seeking a Process Engineering lead in North Chicago, IL. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in chemical engineering and experience in biologics and peptides development. Responsibilities include leading teams, solving technical problems, and enhancing process efficiency. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and be able to collaborate effectively across various teams. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and is a key role in driving innovation.

Qualifications

• 18+ years (BS), 16+ years (MS), or 10+ years (PhD) of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to solve challenging technical problems.
• Strong team player with effective communication skills.
• Strong foundations in chemical engineering and the ability to demonstrate skills in this field.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust manufacturing processes for novel modalities.
• Lead project teams towards process development goals.
• Author and review technical documents for regulatory compliance.
• Lead scale-up of laboratory processes in the pilot plant.
• Set project strategies, define responsibilities and timelines, and provide leadership in a matrixed team setting.
• Address challenging problems with biochemical reactions, separations, and/or isolations using kinetics, transport phenomena, and modeling.
• Establish, communicate, and execute research plans.
• Collaborate across chemistry, analytics, process development, pilot plant, regulatory affairs, and program management.
• Author/review technical documents and contribute to regulatory filings.
• Mentor direct reports and strengthen the Process Engineering scientific brand.

Skills

Collaborative behavior

Chemical engineering fundamentals

Problem-solving skills

Scientific leadership

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Chemical/Bio 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

R&D Process Engineering Organization, a part of AbbVie’s Development Sciences organization, is responsible for designing and developing scalable processes to make drug substances and drug products, including synthetics molecules, antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) and genetic medicines, throughout pre-clinical and clinical development stages. Process Engineering also partners with Biologics CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls) Development and Aesthetics R&D functions to provide active engineering support to enable robust process scale-up and manufacturing of biologics drug substances and drug products including toxins and cosmetic active ingredients (CAIs). It drives the development of innovative engineering technologies and creates valuable intellectual property through the composition of matter and chemical/bio-chemical processes resulting in cost-effective commercial manufacturing processes for quality products. Process Engineering organization also supports the scale-up in the pilot plants and supply chain development for pipeline molecules and supports the justification of CMC regulatory content.

Job Description

Role Overview

The successful Process Engineering candidate will play a key technical team leader role in the R&D Process Engineering function. In addition to a strong background in fundamentals of chemical engineering, the ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the biologics, peptides, ADC development and genetic medicines as a strong technical team leader. The candidate must have demonstrated initiative in building and sustaining cross-functional collaborations. In addition to leading the technical team, the successful candidate is also expected to lead the identification and development of novel approaches and technologies to enhance process development efficiency and commercialization of novel modalities. The candidate must exhibit a collaborative behavior in proactively identifying process challenges on a wide range of pipeline and innovation projects, take a leadership role in a cross-functional team to deliver specific project needs, and take on a scientific leadership role in developing and implementing solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop robust manufacturing processes, supporting assets including novel modalities through all phases of clinical development.
• Lead project teams towards process development and characterization of new synthetic and large molecule assets.
• Influence process development of toxins, cosmetic active ingredients and genetic medicines proactively.
• Lead scale-up of laboratory processes in the pilot plant.
• Set project strategies, define project responsibilities and timelines, and provide leadership in a matrixed team setting.
• Address challenging problems with biochemical reactions, separations, and/or isolations using expertise in reaction kinetics, transport phenomena, and mathematical modeling.
• Establish, communicate, and execute research plans.
• Exhibit a collaborative nature in identifying process challenges on a wide range of projects and communicate findings and recommendations effectively by multi-disciplinary interactions with organic chemists, analytical chemists, process development engineers, pilot plant engineers, drug product development scientists, program managers, and regulatory affairs specialists.
• Author and/or review technical documents summarizing process development efforts and contribute to regulatory filings.
• Strengthen scientific brand of Process Engineering while providing mentorship to direct reports and process engineering colleagues.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Chemical/Bio Engineering or a related field and 18+ (BS), 16+ (MS), or 10+ (PhD) years of relevant biopharmaceuticals industrial experience.
• Ph.D. candidates with pertinent research exposure are also encouraged to apply.
• Job level will be commensurate with academic and/or industrial work experience.
• Candidates are expected to have a strong foundations in chemical engineering and the proven ability to demonstrate their skills in this field.
• The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to solve challenging technical problems and champion next generation of innovative technologies to achieve project goals around novel modalities.
• The candidate is required to be a strong team player and demonstrate scientific leadership, possessing effective oral and written communication skills for facilitating co-creation and leading cross-functional process development teams.

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.

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 - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html. US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html