Shift Technical Engineer – Manufacturing Process Optimizer

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 66,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL, is seeking a Shift Technical Engineer on rotating shifts. You will apply scientific and engineering knowledge to lead process troubleshooting and minimize downtime during assigned shift.

The role involves planning and executing projects to improve process yield, quality, and throughput, coordinating resources, and mentoring others across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Technical Operations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent technical experience.
• Has demonstrated competency within a discipline.
• Possesses a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Ability to work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.
• Has a technical background in health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities of this engineering grade level inherently include and expand upon the responsibilities established for lower engineering grade levels.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Plans and conducts small- to medium-size assigned projects (continuous improvement, cost reduction, capacity increase, etc.) that lead to process remediation and improvement requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment. Coordinates and monitors activities/projects. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those assigned to project; makes judgments regarding quality of implementation within discipline; employs contingency plans to recover from schedule slippage and financial overruns when appropriate.
• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks. Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally. Recognizes changes in the environment and present resources as indicators of future problems and opportunities; prepares for such eventualities.
• Independently executes projects in manufacturing process areas to achieve process efficiencies such as increase in process yield, quality improvements, cycle time/throughput, and cost reduction initiatives by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline. Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments.
• Creates/modified designs for intermediate problems. Gather and analyze process data using statistical process control methodology. Support development of action plan to increase process robustness, prevent product loss, and control quality impact. Predicts patterns/trends. Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations.
• Improves methods/designs/processes. Recognizes and implements good ideas/innovations/costs reductions; consistently generates/adopts original solutions to problems and reduces them to practices.
• Mentors others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance. Resolves underlying technical and automation problems. Identifies full range of customer/operator needs and proposes solutions to address them; makes alterations in products or services to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer need.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline

Job description

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL, is seeking a Shift Technical Engineer on rotating shifts. You will apply scientific and engineering knowledge to lead process troubleshooting and minimize downtime during assigned shift.

The role involves planning and executing projects to improve process yield, quality, and throughput, coordinating resources, and mentoring others across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Technical Operations in a fast-paced environment.