Process Engineer
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Sligo, SO
- Operations
- Hybrid
- Full-time
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 – 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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
We are looking for a Process Engineer to join our Technical Operations team in Sligo. In this role, the successful candidate will provide technical support and program management to all relevant functional departments across the site. They will also provide engineering support to New Product Introductions (NPIs) and contribute to reducing standard product costs by introducing and executing continuous improvement initiatives.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide engineering support to all manufacturing and control system related issues. Tasks include, daily trouble shooting, optimisation, cost reduction, training and coaching of manufacturing personnel.
- Support commissioning and validation activities during project start-up.
- Process and equipment optimisation to sustain and improve product quality, yields and throughput. Making recommendations and implementing measures to improve production systems, equipment performance, yields and quality of product.
- Execution of process development on existing products or new late-stage clinical products including scale up to plant equipment.
- Identify continuous improvement activities and lead or participate in cross functional teams to implement these initiatives.
- Supporting activities in the areas of cost reduction, process efficiency and operational excellence.
- Provide on-the-floor technical support to the Production Team Leaders for process/equipment optimization and troubleshooting.
- Identify and project manage continuous improvement projects.
- Develop and update batch and cleaning documentation for NPIs.
- Support process front runs for both NPI and commercial processes.
- Develop process control recipes for NPIs and optimise of existing commercial process recipes.
- Adhere to and support all EHS&E standards, procedures and policies.
- Other activities as assigned.
- Degree or higher qualification in chemical engineering, process engineering or related technical discipline
- Minimum of 2 years experience in process engineering
- Relevant experience of batch processing, automation, technical transfers, scale up, commissioning and validation in a cGMP pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in new product introductions to pharmaceutical facilities is desirable.
- Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to deliver projects on schedule, within budget, and meeting the predefined quality requirements are required.
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Where We Work
Role is primarily site- or office-based but can occasionally be performed remotely. Employees who are site/office-based and can occasionally perform their role virtually work both in the office and remotely*, following the policies and regulations in place at their location. US Employees must be in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Three days in the office is the minimum; some individuals or teams may require more in-office days due to meetings, business/project needs or their role.