Senior Scientist, Engineering I (Onsite-North Chicago, IL)

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

General Introduction to Function and job description:

Chemical Engineers support API projects through all the phases of late stage development, commercialization,  product life cycle. This position will be responsible to ensure processes can be run safely, addressing scale-up issues and developing and implementing robust API process steps from the lab to a manufacturing environment. Once commercialized, the process engineer is responsible for continuous improvement activities, technical transfer to manufacturing sites, and resolution of technical manufacturing issues in a commercial setting.  Effective cross functional interactions with quality and regulatory functions and on-site manufacturing personnel is key for successful job performance.   

Purpose

Independently generate precise, reliable and reproducible data in a timely manner. Demonstrate experimental precision and strong data interpretation skills and should possess understanding of core discipline.

Desired skills:

• Conceives, designs, conducts research and development for major process or product design improvement. 
• Develops processes and programs to optimize or achieve the plant efficiency, product quality, cost control, customer specification or product design changes.
• Investigates troubleshooting of product failures and recommends remediation direction.
• Writes technical documents required to appropriate quality file or regulatory agent. 
• Experience and/or education with API and/or natural product processes in pharmaceuticals.

Major Responsibilities: 

Level of Expertise: 

• Conceptualizes and impl