Associate Director, Utilities Engineering

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

Purpose:

The Associate Director of Utilities provides owner-side leadership and technical governance for the design, integration, and delivery of Utilities and associated infrastructure supporting large biopharmaceutical capital projects. This role serves as the Design Authority for Black and Clean utility systems, ensuring that the systems are designed to meet manufacturing requirements, GMP standards, reliability expectations, and regulatory compliance. The incumbent provides oversight of Engineering contractor’s design activities and ensures effective integration between process systems, HVAC, automation, process equipment and facility infrastructure. Key systems of responsibility include Chillers, compressors, steam boilers, cooling towers, Purified water, WFI, Clean Steam including the distribution systems required for pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturing capital projects of total value > $2B. The role also requires implementation of technology with AI and digital innovation teams such as the Factory of the Future.  The incumbent will report to Senior Director, Engineering in the Operations Transformation organization.            

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the owner’s senior Utilities system technical leader
• Lead the owner’s Utilities team and provide technical oversight of Engineering contractor’s design activities related to black and clean utilities.
• Establish engineering standards and execution strategies for Utility systems
• Lead technical strategy and engineering oversight for Black utilities such as Plant steam, Chilled water, Cooling water, Compressed air, HVAC utilities, Glycol systems, Potable water, Vacuum systems, breathing air and Clean utilities such as Nitrogen and process gases, Purified Water (PW), Water for Injection (WFI), Clean steam, Clean compressed air, Process gases, CIP utility infrastructure
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, specifications, design guides, and best practices for utility systems.
• Ensure harmonization and consistency of utility system design across global capital projects and manufacturing sites.
• Provide technical leadership for selection, specification, integration, and lifecycle management of utility systems across all strategic capital projects.
• Review and approve engineering deliverables including equipment datasheets, Cause and Effect matrices, Control philosophy and narrative, P&IDs, utility system specifications, load and sizing calculations, piping, data sheets.
• Ensure consistency of instrumentation architecture and implementation across global projects and manufacturing sites.
• Support design reviews, HAZOPs, constructability reviews, FAT/SAT activities, and operational readiness assessments.
• Support project planning, budgeting, negotiation and procurement strategies, and schedule development for instrumentation packages.
• Review vendor submittals and ensure alignment with process, automation, cybersecurity, and GMP requirements.
• Partner with automation and process control teams to ensure proper integration between field instrumentation, PLC/DCS/SCADA platforms, and manufacturing execution systems.
• Support definition of control strategies, alarm management philosophy, and data integrity requirements.
• Ensure field devices and instrumentation networks align with digitalization and smart manufacturing initiatives.
• Ensure system design meets GMP, reliability, and operational requirements in addition to supporting contamination control, reliability and maintainability
• Lead instrumentation commissioning strategy and execution for process systems, clean utilities, and facility infrastructure.
• Support development and review of commissioning plans, test scripts, turnover packages, and startup procedures.