Director, Engineering, Technical Expert Sterile Fill
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Company Description: About AbbVie ... We can maybe include as a brief paragraph under About the role? Or maybe not needed? The instruction: Use About the role heading for section headings. Could place company description under About the role? But About the role likely refers to role description. However we have Position Summary which is about role. Company description is about AbbVie. Could we include it under About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to include as a paragraph under About the role (since it's about the company). The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have About the role section containing position summary and maybe company description.
Responsibilities: list of key responsibilities bullet points.
Requirements: maybe the qualifications bullet points (education, experience). Could be separate from Qualifications? Actually they have Qualifications section with bullet points. Then Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies could be Skills.
Thus:
About the role
Company description paragraph + Position summary paragraph.
But we need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include both company description and position summary.
Let's copy company description text:
"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."
Position summary:
"Position Summary The Director Engineering Technical Expert Sterile Fill provides enterprise-level technical leadership for sterile fill engineering across AbbVie’s strategic investment portfolio, with accountability for biologics sterile filling, Annex 1-aligned contamination control, aseptic processing design, barrier technology strategy, equipment / facility interfaces, GMP readiness, validation / CQV integration and technical assurance within Strategic Investments - Engineering. The role shapes and governs engineering strategies for strategic investments by setting technical direction, aligning standards and assuring robust execution across priority capital programs, technology platforms and future manufacturing capabilities. The role leads engineering activities associated with strategic investment programs, including new facility investments, technology platform deployments, capacity expansion, infrastructure enablement, lifecycle asset renewal and capability-building initiatives that materially impact long-term business performance. The role partners with Strategic Investments leadership, operating sites, quality, EHS, validation / CQV and external engineering partners to make high-quality technical decisions, resolve complex risks and deliver business-aligned engineering outcomes."
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Now Responsibilities: The "Key Responsibilities" section includes multiple bullet-like paragraphs. We need to turn each into - . The text includes headings like "Strategic Investments - Engineering Governance and Standards", then paragraphs. We need to extract each bullet point.
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Under Strategic Investments - Engineering Governance and Standards:
- Establish, maintain and deploy global engineering standards, technical practices and governance expectations for biologics sterile fill engineering, Annex 1-aligned contamination control strategy, aseptic processing, barrier technologies, equipment / facility interfaces, GMP readiness, validation / CQV integration and technical assurance.
- Drive consistent application of technical standards, design principles, lessons learned and engineering playbooks across regions, sites and capital projects.
- Ensure discipline strategies directly support AbbVie’s strategic investment priorities, future manufacturing capability requirements and major capital program objectives.
- Provide governance and escalation for technical decisions with material safety, quality, compliance, cost, schedule, operability or lifecycle impact.
Strategic Investment Leadership and Execution Support:
- Provide senior engineering leadership for strategic capital investments, including new facility builds, technology platform deployments, capacity projects, infrastructure enablement, lifecycle asset renewal and future capability investments.
- Support front-end engineering, facility concept development, investment option evaluation, manufacturing capability assessments and site / platform planning activities.
- Partner with Strategic Investments and project leadership to ensure technical assumptions, deliverables, risks and resource needs are integrated into capital program plans.
- Apply enterprise lessons learned and strategic investment standards to improve project quality, decision speed, reliability and readiness across the portfolio.
Sterile Filling, Biologics Manufacturing and Annex 1 Compliance:
- Provide senior technical leadership for sterile filling of biologics and parenteral products, including vial, syringe, cartridge and bulk sterile transfer interfaces where relevant to strategic investment scope.
- Ensure facility, equipment and process design decisions are aligned with EU GMP Annex 1 expectations for sterile medicinal products, including contamination control strategy, quality risk management, cleanroom classification, barrier technology and aseptic process control.
- Govern technical strategy for isolators, restricted access barrier systems, Grade A critical zones, Grade B / C / D background environments, unidirectional airflow, first-air protection, glove systems, transfer systems and aseptic interventions.
- Lead engineering input to contamination control strategy development, ensuring critical control points are embedded across facility design, equipment, utilities, personnel flows, material flows, cleaning, disinfection, environmental monitoring and maintenance access.
- Partner with Quality, MS&T, Validation / CQV and Operations to ensure aseptic process simulations, media fill strategy, filter integrity testing, sterile filtration, container closure integrity, environmental monitoring and viable / non-viable particle control are considered in design and readiness decisions.
- Provide technical challenge and risk-based decision support for interventions, line set-up, lyophilization interfaces, stopper / component handling, depyrogenation, sterilization, single-use systems, CIP / SIP interfaces and biologics product protection requirements.
- Ensure sterile fill investment programs are designed for inspection readiness, robust contamination prevention, operational maintainability, product sterility assurance and reliable long-term biologics manufacturing performance.
Technical Leadership and Delivery:
- Lead technical decision-making for biologics sterile fill engineering, aseptic processing design, Annex 1 compliance expectations, contamination control strategy, barrier technology selection, equipment / facility interfaces, GMP readiness, validation / CQV integration and technical assurance across strategic investment programs and technology platforms.
- Ensure engineering deliverables support safety, quality, compliance, operability, maintainability, reliability, sustainability and operational readiness.
- Coordinate technical input from project teams, site SMEs, external engineering partners, vendors and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Drive timely resolution of technical issues and ensure disciplined escalation when decisions have material project, portfolio, enterprise or business impact.
Cross-Functional Integration:
- Partner with Strategic Investments, manufacturing operations, quality, validation / CQV, EHS, site engineering, MS&T, supply chain, finance and related engineering disciplines.
- Ensure discipline decisions are integrated with strategic investment objectives, manufacturing strategy, capacity planning, technology platform deployment, regulatory expectations and site handover needs.
- Facilitate collaboration across regions, sites and project teams to avoid fragmented solutions and drive consistency across strategic investments.
- Represent Strategic Investments - Engineering in technical reviews, project forums and risk discussions relevant to assigned scope.
Capability Building and Continuous Improvement:
- Share engineering best practices, lessons learned and technical knowledge across sites, regions and projects.
- Build capability through coaching, mentoring, technical review discipline and development of reusable engineering practices.
- Promote a culture of engineering excellence, safety, quality, reliability, collaboration, accountability and proactive risk management.
- Support continuous improvement of Strategic Investments - Engineering standards, templates, knowledge management and project delivery approaches.
Strategic Investments - Engineering Leadership Expectations:
- Collaborate across the enterprise engineering community to identify, develop and deploy best practices, technical standards, lessons learned and capability-building initiatives.
- Promote consistency, quality, reliability, sustainability and project delivery performance across the strategic investment portfolio.
- Support long-range strategic investment planning, manufacturing strategy and future capability development.
- Build technical capability through coaching, mentoring, standards governance, knowledge management and cross-functional collaboration.
Stakeholder Interfaces:
- Strategic Investments: Investment planning, portfolio alignment, technical assumptions, front-end engineering, strategic capital program support and executive decision enablement.
- Manufacturing Sites and Operations: Network needs, site readiness, operability, maintainability, startup, handover and operational performance support.
- Quality, Validation / CQV and EHS: Compliance expectations, validation strategy, qualification readiness, safety, risk review and inspection readiness interfaces.
- Strategic Investments - Engineering Disciplines: Cross-discipline technical integration, standards, design reviews, technical issue resolution and strategic investment lessons learned.
- External Engineering Partners, EPCM Firms, Vendors and OEMs: Technical oversight, deliverable review, issue escalation, supplier alignment and execution quality.
We need to include all these as list items. That's many items; okay.
Now Requirements: maybe the Qualifications section bullet points:
"Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or a relevant technical discipline required; advanced degree preferred where relevant.
Typically 12+ to 15+ years of relevant engineering, manufacturing, capital project, technical operations or regulated manufacturing experience.
Demonstrated technical capability in biologics sterile filling, aseptic processing, Annex 1 contamination control expectations, isolators / RABS, cleanroom interfaces, sterile filtration, environmental monitoring, GMP readiness, validation / CQV integration and technical assurance.
Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device, API, peptides, biologics, sterile or similarly regulated manufacturing environments preferred.
Demonstrated ability to operate across global functions, strategic investment teams, manufacturing sites, project teams, suppliers, vendors and external engineering partners.
Strong communication, risk management, technical judgment, stakeholder engagement and structured problem-solving skills."
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- under Requirements.
Now Skills: Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies.
Technical Competencies list:
- Biologics sterile fill-finish systems
- EU GMP Annex 1 contamination control strategy, aseptic processing and sterility assurance
- Equipment / facility interfaces
- Strategic investment portfolio support
- Strategic investment manufacturing readiness and sterile operations support
- Strategic capital investment leadership
- Engineering governance and standards
- Technical risk management
- Project execution support
- Stakeholder management
- Vendor / partner technical coordination
- GMP and regulated manufacturing awareness
- Isolator / RABS design, Grade A critical zones, background classification and aseptic intervention strategy
- Operational readiness and handover support
Leadership Competencies list:
- Strategic thinking and enterprise mindset
- Matrix leadership and influence without direct authority
- Clear technical communication and executive-ready recommendations
- Risk-based decision making and issue escalation
- Collaboration across functions, sites, regions and external partners
- Capability building, mentoring
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The provided text includes company description, position summary, responsibilities, qualifications, technical competencies, leadership competencies, working relationships (partial). We need to include all that. We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe position summary). Responsibilities (key responsibilities). Requirements (maybe qualifications). Qualifications (maybe separate? The posting has Qualifications section and also Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies. Could treat Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies as Skills? Or maybe as Skills section. The instruction: Use headings for Skills. So we could put Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies under Skills. Or we could have separate sections but only allowed headings list; we could still use Skills heading for combined. We also have Working Relationships (maybe part of Responsibilities or Skills). Could incorporate into Responsibilities or Skills. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No Job ID. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: Company Description: About AbbVie ... We can maybe include as a brief paragraph under About the role? Or maybe not needed? The instruction: Use About the role heading for section headings. Could place company description under About the role? But About the role likely refers to role description. However we have Position Summary which is about role. Company description is about AbbVie. Could we include it under About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to include as a paragraph under About the role (since it's about the company). The instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have About the role section containing position summary and maybe company description.
Responsibilities: list of key responsibilities bullet points.
Requirements: maybe the qualifications bullet points (education, experience). Could be separate from Qualifications? Actually they have Qualifications section with bullet points. Then Technical Competencies and Leadership Competencies could be Skills.
Thus:
About the role
Company description paragraph + Position summary paragraph.
But we need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include both company description and position summary. Let's copy company description text: "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." Position summary: "Position Summary The Director Engineering Technical Expert Sterile Fill provides enterprise-level technical leadership for sterile fill engineering across AbbVie’s strategic investment portfolio, with accountability for biologics sterile filling, Annex 1-aligned contamination control, aseptic processing design, barrier technology strategy, equipment / facility interfaces, GMP readiness, validation / CQV integration and technical assurance within Strategic Investments - Engineering. The role shapes and governs engineering strategies for strategic investments by setting technical direction, aligning standards and assuring robust execution across priority capital programs, technology platforms and future manufacturing capabilities. The role leads engineering activities associated with strategic investment programs, including new facility investments, technology platform deployments, capacity expansion, infrastructure enablement, lifecycle asset renewal and capability-building initiatives that materially impact long-term business performance. The role partners with Strategic Investments leadership, operating sites, quality, EHS, validation / CQV and external engineering partners to make high-quality technical decisions, resolve complex risks and deliver business-aligned engineering outcomes." We can combine into a paragraph. Now Responsibilities: The "Key Responsibilities" section includes multiple bullet-like paragraphs. We need to turn each into