Maintenance Laboratory Technician IV

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. 

Purpose

Performed preventive and corrective maintenance activities for laboratory equipment/systems for Chemistry, Microbiology, Incoming QA, final QA and Plastic laboratories in accordance with the regulations applicable to our industry (National code, USP, cGMP, OSHA, etc.), operational manuals, specifications, maintaining a high degree of reliability in a safe and efficient manner.  Provide technical support to the laboratories and validations activities related to the laboratory instruments.

Responsibilities

•Comply with AbbVie's Policies, with the Plant Procedures, and with the regulations and requirements of Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) of the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
•Perform and document preventive maintenance and corrective work orders assigned under supervision complying with applicable procedures
• Perform repairs and reports malfunctions of equipment to the supervisor.

• Read, interpret and use drawings, electrical, equipment, and schematic manuals as reference when performing maintenance work. Identify problems and causes and make corrections / repairs if necessary.
•Select and maintain inventory of spare parts for equipment and instruments.
•Provide technical advice or train co-workers in the operation, maintenance of instrument of high technological level and other aspects necessary to perform the job.

• Organizes and performs testing for qualifications.

• Write and update SOP, work instructions and qualification documents as required.

• Open change control records for projects in GTW.

• Manage qualification projects.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Associate’s degree with an emphasis in Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Science or Physics and four (4) years of related lab experience is preferred. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

•Minimum two to three years of experience in pharmaceutical industry, Laboratories, Industrial Mechanics, Electricity, Electronics and / or Refrigeration or related areas.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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. ​

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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. ​

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