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AbbVie Process Engineer - recent college graduate in Waco, Texas
Company Description
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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Job Summary
An engineering professional who applies scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.
Job Details
The position is responsible for the following:
Plans and conducts small-to- medium size assigned projects within engineering specialty 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 judgements 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 the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities by applying standard engineering theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline. Independently investigates, conducts tests or experiments.
Creates/modified designed for intermediate problems. Designs/modifies more complex components/processes; writes detailed design specifications. Predicts patterns/trends. Grasps complexities and see relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations.
Improves methods/designs/processes. Recognizes and implements good idea/innovations/cost 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 problems. Identifies full range of customer/client needs and proposes solutions to address them; makes alterations in products or services to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer need.
Directs the efforts of others such as technicians and outside resources. Performs tasks such as writing requests for Captial Expenditures (RCEs), safety/quality checklists, scope documents, etc. Develops and executes validation protocols.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Minimum requirements for this position are:
Education - Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, or closely related discipline is desired.
Experience: Technical - 2+ years of relevant significant engineering and/or experience with an emphasis in validations.
Experience: BT Systems - MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
Experience: Regulatory - Experience working in a GMP regulated environment.
Experience: Aseptic - Knowledge of FDA regulated industrial environment, preferred.
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Experience in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical or medical devices with knowledge of the validation water systems, clean rooms, aseptic processing operations, packaging, sterilization, laboratory equipment, and computer systems validation.
Able to work in a controlled environment that includes surgical mask and goggles.
Ability to comply with gowning certifications and subsequent gowning verifications.
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 a 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 committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.