R&D Technician III - Process Development

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. 

• Precisely follow company tissue requests, study designs, protocols and SOPs for the complete processing of tissue based products with minimal supervision
• Perform lab testing to demonstrate the ability of the product/device to function as intended under study director/management supervision
• Contribute to the development of processes for manufacturing tissue products
• Work with in-house engineering groups to scale-up, validate, and transfer the commercial manufacturing process
• Monitor and analyze the performance of processes and equipment and make recommendations for continuous improvement with minimal guidance
• Serve as a subject matter expert, provide guidance to junior staff
• Train employees and staff on complex technical methods
• Independently operate a variety of laboratory and manufacturing equipment
• Follows Good Documentation Practices when recording information on batch records, equipment and cleaning logs, and other documents
• Maintains/manages inventory of processing supplies with little to no guidance
• Ability to independelty enter data and generate reports in data entry systems such as MS Office, SAP, etc.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School Graduate or GED
• 3-5 years of manufacturing experience
• ability to work a flexible schedule

Highly Preferred:

• Associates degree
• Experience in the Medical Device industry
• Experience in R&D or Process

Technical Knowledge Required:

• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and other relevant regulatory requirements
• Basic chemistry laboratory practices and techniques
• Personal computer hardware and software applications
• Business English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Basic mathematical computations
• Current company policies, practices and procedures including safety rules and regulations

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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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.