Associate Director, Utilities Engineering

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.

Purpose:

The Associate Director of Utilities provides owner-side leadership and technical governance for the design, integration, and delivery of Utilities and associated infrastructure supporting large biopharmaceutical capital projects. This role serves as the Design Authority for Black and Clean utility systems, ensuring that the systems are designed to meet manufacturing requirements, GMP standards, reliability expectations, and regulatory compliance. The incumbent provides oversight of Engineering contractor’s design activities and ensures effective integration between process systems, HVAC, automation, process equipment and facility infrastructure. Key systems of responsibility include Chillers, compressors, steam boilers, cooling towers, Purified water, WFI, Clean Steam including the distribution systems required for pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturing capital projects of total value > $2B. The role also requires implementation of technology with AI and digital innovation teams such as the Factory of the Future. The incumbent will report to Senior Director, Engineering in the Operations Transformation organization.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the owner’s senior Utilities system technical leader

• Lead the owner’s Utilities team and provide technical oversight of Engineering contractor’s design activities related to black and clean utilities.

• Establish engineering standards and execution strategies for Utility systems

• Lead technical strategy and engineering oversight for Black utilities such as Plant steam, Chilled water, Cooling water, Compressed air, HVAC utilities, Glycol systems, Potable water, Vacuum systems, breathing air and Clean utilities such as Nitrogen and process gases, Purified Water (PW), Water for Injection (WFI), Clean steam, Clean compressed air, Process gases, CIP utility infrastructure