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Senior Project Engineer

AbbVie
North Chicago, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Oct 2025

About the role

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

As a Project Engineer, the candidate will lead the industrialization/ design transfer of infusion systems and other electro-mechanical device products into contract manufacturers and internal plants.

  • Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new manufacturing methods and techniques to produce reliable products.
  • Project Engineer shall lead manufacturing partners through early collaboration with the engineering teams to ensure seamless transfer of a new infusion pump product to manufacturing. 
  • The candidate shall execute design transfer strategy, as the key interface with internal and external manufacturing partners.
  • Establishing and maintaining procedures and checkpoints that ensure the new product design requirements successfully translate into production processes and specifications.
  • Responsibilities of this engineering grade level inherently include and expand upon the responsibilities established for lower engineering grade levels.
  • 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 fallback 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.
  • Independently plans and conducts high business impact projects within engineering specialty in the Drug Product Manufacturing or Packaging areas. Responsible for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives. Maintains project controls and

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