Senior Section Manager, Automation

Company Description

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

• Set, direct, and control all department and financial goals, budget and objectives for the automation area assigned.
• Drive and lead the automation department to meet the site/automation business strategies; accountable for cost center expenses, project budgets, and delivery of projects to support required plant/facility projects and programs.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures. Ensures quality and effectiveness of key results of major projects within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fall back strategies.
• Has full awareness of the potential consequences (defects and failure modes) of design changes to established processes.
• Mitigates risk within functions through sound design, early risk assessments and implementation of fallback strategies.
• Recommend and implement business strategies and automation controls to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and drive world-class performance.
• Collaborate with peers and cross-functional partners to define action plans, timelines and budgets for project goals, and manage/plan/assign automation resources required for execution.
• Analyzes business forces (customers, suppliers, competitors, technologies, government regulations) in major markets to identify trends and recommend responses. Independently executes, and/or directs others in the execution of: the design of products/processes/equipment/systems/facilities by applying novel automation theories, concepts, and techniques within the discipline.
• Develop and manage staff through hiring, managing performance, developing talent and providing clear expectations.
• Provides daily leadership to the Automation Team. These responsibilities include personnel management, training management, department organizational structure and project management. This position directly supervises the activities of Project Engineering personnel consisting of a mix of exempt, nonexempt, and contractors.
• Lead the strategic planning of next fiscal year capital plan.
• Administer and lead the annual site capital plan and department budget.
• Deliver capital plan last best estimates (LBE) as per the established frequency by finance and project accounting.
• Makes difficult decisions regarding priorities between projects. Responsible for achieving the projects and capital plan financial targets in support of business objectives and life cycle costs.
• Administer asset management, project lifecycle, and energy sustainability Programs.
• Drive the site capital long range plan from development to submission.
• Assure fulfillments of corporate policies and procedures. Ensure compliance of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) requirements and obligations. Promote continuous improvement and consider EHS aspects during the project design and change process.
• Ensure that the required engineering and commissioning documents are filed in the Technical Library and drawing (CAD) repository system is up to date.
• Responsible of capital project definition, request capital expenditure (RCE) development, engineering cost estimate, design, project plan integration, construction, and compliance with commissioning and qualification requirements.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with a desired 10+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience. A post-graduate education/degree is desired and may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
• Business acumen coupled with leadership experience is required to drive high performance.
• DeltaV required 
• Pharmaceutical experience preferred
• Change Management exp