Project Engineer, Packaging

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose

An engineering professional who, working with little or no supervision, applies project management knowledge, engineering knowledge and ingenuity to complete medium size projects from concept thru project closure within or across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• The Engineering professional designs, maintains, and optimizes the specialized equipment such as oral solid dose or capsules bottle filling or blister forming and filing equipment used to manufacture drugs, ensuring efficiency, safety, and strict regulatory compliance (like FDA rules) for equipment used in drug packaging, from oral solid dose tablets/capsules to complex medical devices. They focus on equipment development, qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), troubleshooting, automation (PLCs, HMI), process improvement, and collaboration across teams for new product integration, vital for scaling up from labs to mass production. 
• The Senior Equipment Engineer will be responsible for the ownership, qualification, process ownership, and continuous improvement of advanced automated manufacturing equipment. This includes systems that integrate robotics, machine vision, servo motion control, pneumatics, and PLC-based automation. The role requires a hands-on engineer with strong technical expertise to ensure high equipment uptime, process stability, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with Uhlmann Thermoforming and IBC bottle filling a plus as well as custom medical device sub-assembly and final assembly technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary owner for automated manufacturing equipment, covering mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control subsystems.
• Develop and execute