Senior Manager, Infrastructure Project

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At AbbVie we bring together talented people and innovative science to develop medicines that help patients. Now were bringing that commitment to Durham North Carolina with a new manufacturing campus that will expand our ability to produce medicines and create opportunities in the Research Triangle.

The campus will integrate advanced manufacturing laboratory technologies and AI to support the production of immunology oncology and neuroscience medicines. The first phase will include manufacturing facilities next-generation laboratories a warehouse administrative offices and employee wellness facilities.

To learn more about this investment please visit are now recruiting our Senior Manager Infrastructure Project as part of the core start up leadership team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The job leads technical workstreams and contributes to program outcomes by developing actionable methods and analyses collaborating with crossfunctional partners to integrate technical solutions throughout the lifecycle and advising on complex technical decisions and risks.

Defines project design and engineering planning for assigned projects. Leads system equipment and technology installations ensuring safe integration commissioning readiness and on-time delivery. Assesses project processes and resolves operational or technical issues.

Delivers operational improvements business value delivery and site production efficiency through effective project execution. Provides technical guidance to junior engineers and collaborates with cross-functional teams ensuring integration of systems equipment and technologies. Delivers highquality technical outputs for complex projects and programs; defines and validates methods documents results and key assumptions ensures adherence to applicable standards and controls and communicates technical progress impacts and recommended mitigations to project leads and stakeholders.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Deliver assigned infrastructure projects: Manage assigned campus development consisting of a set of buildings or systems from utilities Spine warehouse laboratory administration cafeteria laboratories car park offices and office buildings. Translate overall program or campus objectives into clearly defined package deliverables and deliver against approved scope schedule budget and quality requirements.
2. Own project planning cost and schedule control: Develop and maintain package or building execution plans budgets forecasts schedules milestones and performance measures. Align package plans with the integrated campus schedule monitor commitments and progress address variances and provide timely accurate reporting to the Infrastructure Project Director.
3. Coordinate design and technical integration: Represent assigned infrastructure scopes in design development led by Global Engineering. Consolidate campus and Operations requirements coordinate design reviews and vendor information and track technical decisions to closure. Integrate constructability maintainability local conditions and interfaces with adjacent projects into package design.
4. Execute procurement and support contractor selection: Develop package procurement plans aligned with the approved portfolio strategy. Prepare scopes of work and technical requirements coordinate bid evaluations with Procurement and technical stakeholders assess vendor capability and delivery risk and recommend suppliers and contractors for approval. Track critical equipment and material deliveries.
5. Administer contracts and control scope changes: Implement approved contracting approaches for assigned packages supporting contract formation and administering scope deliverables and contractor obligations within delegated authority. Maintain change records evaluate cost schedule quality and interface impacts and obtain required approvals before authorizing changes or commitments.
6. Coordinate construction execution safety and quality: Partner with the Construction Director and designated construction managers to coordinate package execution resolve design and field interfaces and monitor contractor progress and quality. Work with EHS Quality and Engineering to address safety compliance inspection and permitting requirements; escalate unresolved issues without duplicating construction-management accountability.
7. Drive commissioning readiness handover and closeout: Coordinate with Commissioning and Start-up Qualification and Operations teams to establish package acceptance and turnover requirements early. Ensure construction completion testing qualification or verification as applicable punch-list resolution documentation training support and asset handover are completed. Close contracts and capture lessons learned to improve delivery across the portfolio.

Qualifications :

Education

• Required: Bachelors degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Preferred: Advanced degree Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or relevant engineering or project-management credentials.

Experience

• Recommended minimum: At least 10 years of relevant engineering or capital-project experience including direct accountability for delivering complex infrastructure projects or major packages.
• Demonstrated delivery experience spanning planning design procurement construction commissioning and handover in pharmaceutical biopharmaceutical or comparable regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience with campus utilities building systems site infrastructure or support facilities including interfaces with cGMP manufacturing operations.
• Hands-on experience managing scope budgets forecasts schedules risk contractor performance procurement activities contract administration and change control.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating designers contractors vendors Engineering Construction Commissioning Operations Procurement EHS and Quality in a matrixed organization.
• Preferred: Greenfield campus or major expansion experience; commissioning and qualification exposure; and implementation of Factory of the future concepts relevant to infrastructure delivery.

Core skills and capabilities

• Project execution and accountability: Converts portfolio priorities into practical package plans and drives deliverables to completion within delegated authority.
• Technical and design integration: Understands utilities infrastructure building systems and applicable cGMP design principles; integrates operational requirements vendor inputs and project interfaces.
• Financial and schedule management: Uses budgets forecasts integrated schedules milestones and performance measures to identify variances and drive corrective action.
• Commercial and contract management: Develops clear scopes evaluates bids administers approved contracts monitors contractor obligations and applies disciplined change control.
• Risk management and problem-solving: Anticipates constraints evaluates options and delivery impacts implements mitigation and escalates decisions with clear recommendations.
• Construction and commissioning readiness: Coordinates safety quality completion testing turnover documentation and operational handover across delivery teams.
• Team leadership and stakeholder influence: Directs and coaches assigned team members builds accountability and aligns stakeholders without relying on formal reporting authority.
• Communication and continuous improvement: Provides concise status and decision updates maintains reliable project records and applies lessons learned to improve delivery consistency.

Additional Information :

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

• 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 long-term incentive programs. 

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 Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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