Maintenance Superintendent - job 1 of 2

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.

The Maintenance Superintendent will be responsible for the operation and stability of the Plant’s facilities, utilities, and equipment in the GMP maintenance area. Provides technical direction to a complex and diverse manufacturing and process environment to maintain facilities, utilities, equipment, and systems availability, enhance regulatory compliance and optimize productivity. Manages activities and resources to ensure complete maintenance support is provided to meet manufacturing area needs. Provide support to Operations in terms of equipment troubleshooting, improvement ideas assessment and implementation and events investigations. Supports the project engineering area in the identification of Capital needs and the subsequent implementation and validation of projects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the execution of the preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activities at the facilities, utilities, and equipment systems.
• Implement maintenance solutions to improve Plant’s Safety, Quality and Financial Performance. Drives functional performance following Maintenance Excellence (MEP) guidelines to ensure the highest standards of quality, customer service, and regulatory compliance metrics are met.
• Provide technical expertise (Subject Matter Expert) for the investigation of events related to equipment and systems maintenance. Propose and/or establish corrective and preventive actions as required. Investigate equipment and/or system problems from the maintenance standpoint. Develop and implement appropriate corrective actions aimed to remediate the deficiency and prevent recurrence.
• Develop and maintain maintenance requirements for all existing and new equipment within the maintenance responsibilities (Mechanical, Utilities, Electrical, Instrumentation, HVAC, Refrigeration, Facilities, among others).
• Revise/identify all equipment spare parts, tools, and other items needed to perform the maintenance work as required from the maintenance standpoint.
• Evaluate equipment maintenance activities, intervals, and spare parts availability. Implement the necessary changes to the maintenance programs so the technical personnel effort produces the optimum equipment reliability.
• Supervise exempts and non-exempts personnel such as, but no limited to, supervisors, level entry and senior engineers, maintenance coordinators/planners and technicians. Manages personnel performance assessments, training, development, and discipline actions following the Human Resources Policies to maintain high personnel productivity and the best achievable service level.
• Plans and coordinates equipment maintenance shutdowns, including budgeting, activities and utilization of human resources, technical resources, and scheduling.
• Assure fulfillment of environmental, health, safety, and energy (EHS&E) requirements and compliance obligations, promote continuous improvement, and consider EHS&E aspects during the design and change process. Supervise contractor work to assure compliance with company policy, regulatory agencies expectations and safety regulations.
• Achieve the timely execution of maintenance activities within its area of responsibility supporting the following as applicable:
  1. Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, HVAC and/or Refrigeration equipment related to process/environmental control, laboratories, and Warehouse equipment.
  2. Responsible to support the Plant’s Instrument Calibration Program to keep it in Compliance with procedures and regulations requirements with in-house personnel or outside service contractors.

Significant Work Activities:

• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
• Exposure to temps below 60 degrees Fahrenheit/16 degrees Celsius on a regular basis is required
• Frequent to continuous computer usage (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) is required
• Wearing a respirator more than 20% of the workday is required
• Wear ear plugs
• Work at heights, e.g. ladders, scaffolds, catwalks, etc.
• Work in a clean room environment
• Work in confined spaces
• Work in noisy environment
• Repeated bending, stooping, squatting or kneeling is required
• Work with or near radiation sources and/or radioactive material
• Exposure to temps above 85 degrees Fahrenheit/28 degrees Celsius on a regular basis is required

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in mechanical, electrical, or chemical engineering or closely related discipline is required.
• Experience in project engineering, manufacturing, or maintenance functional areas – 6 years.
• Supervision experience of maintenance, manufacturing, or utilities non-exempt personnel.
• Four (4) years of technical expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving of Mechanical, HVAC, Refrigeration, Electric Systems, Distributed Control Systems (“DCS”), PLC’s, Process and/or Utilities Equipment.
• Computer skills in software such as Power Point, Excel, and Microsoft Word. Knowledge in maintenance management systems such as a Maximo is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish.
• Excellent problem solving, decision-making and leadership skills to supervise exempt and non-exempt employees.
• Strong decision making, problem solving and leadership skills to manage exempt and non-exempt personnel.
• Excellent interpersonal skills leading and motivating professional, technical staff and outside contractors. Effectively communicate with all levels of management and professionals within the Organization.
• The incumbent needs the ability to manage and organize multiple priorities and achieve results with general guideline. Must have ability to walk within the plant facilities and remain standing and sitting for some periods of time.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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