Principal Engineer, Process Support

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

Purpose

The AbbVie Technical Operations Function provides direct technical support at AbbVie manufacturing sites.  The Principal Engineer within Technical Operations resolves technical issues associated with commercial API’s and drug products. He/she provides technical support to cross-functional teams within the manufacturing site during process transfer and commercial production for a given API or drug product. The Principal Engineer is accountable for test results, project reports and experiments in support of process development, validation activities and process transfers while maintaining and meeting the highest standards in quality, technical excellence, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and applies state-of-the-art chemical engineering knowledge.
• Evaluates and integrates relevant engineering advances for improving or solving problems. Understands the business implications of assigned products and processes and identifies engineering solutions compatible with business needs.
• Designs and executes experiments to test hypothesis related to project outcomes.
• Applies advanced scientific knowledge to projects; determines priorities for experiments. Independently designs and executes experiments. Assures experimental quality through sound, independent, experimental design.
• Applies the results of reviews of literature, patents, and current practices relevant to the business; uses results to determine strategic technical direction
• Directs the work of team members on the project and may coordinate outside resources for projects
• Presents results of projects both internally and externally.
• Participates in project planning, process update;