Senior Scientist, Engineering II (On-site, IL Based)

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

Process engineers in Product Development, Science and Technology support API and natural products projects through all phases of late-stage development, commercialization, and product life cycle. This position is responsible for ensuring that processes can be run safely, addressing scale-up issues and developing and implementing robust API process steps from the lab to a manufacturing environment. The engineer is responsible for assessing key unit operations (e.g., reactions, crystallizations) for process robustness, scientific understanding, and potential scale-up risks and investigating engineering challenges during commercial manufacturing. Effective cross-functional interactions with other functions (e.g., technical, quality, regulatory) and on-site manufacturing personnel are key for successful job performance.

Purpose:

Conceive, develop, and execute novel scientific research or development leading to scalable and robust engineering processes for key modalities (e.g., small molecule APIs, antibody drug conjugates, and natural products). Lead initiatives, investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques in his/her area of technical expertise and effectively communicate findings in a multidisciplinary team. Critically evaluate relevant scientific and regulatory advances and integrate this knowledge into pipeline and commercial programs.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage core chemical engineering principles (chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, mathematical modeling) in experimental design, thought process in problem-solving, and data analysis.
• Seize opportunities to pursue project relevant leads that are in line with the gro