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2026 Technical Operations Intern - Drug Product Pilot Plant

AbbVie
North Chicago, United StatesinternshipVerifiedPosted 19 Sept 2025

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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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

The Drug Product Pilot Plant is part of the Clinical Drug Supply organization within R&D Development Sciences.  The Pilot Plant is responsible for supporting formulation development and scale up activities and for manufacturing oral dosage forms (tablets, capsules, granules, solutions) used in phase I to phase IV clinical trials.  The Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team is the key support group to keep the Pilot Plant running, with responsibilities including engineering projects, manufacturing process support and troubleshooting, and calibrations and maintenance of both the equipment and the facility.  The Tech Ops Intern will gain valuable experience with industry standard unit operations (such as compression, coating, blending, encapsulation) and will build understanding of what it takes to support a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Develop tablet coating process recipes for varying batch and tablet sizes on facility coating equipment
  • Lead a capital project to upgrade plant manufacturing and/or testing equipment
  • Commission and qualify newly purchased equipment for GMP manufacturing
  • Lead an effort to focus on sustainability in the pilot plant with projects such as energy assessments for purified water generation technologies or facility air handling units
  • Create a plan for managing and organizing manufacturing equipment change parts
  • Assist with inves

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