Engineer, Process Safety

Engineer, Process Safety – Abb Vie

Location: North Chicago, IL

Employment type: Full-time

Abb Vie’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 across our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

The ideal candidate will have a solid technical and scientific background and/or pharmaceutical plant experience. They will participate in detailed risk assessments and process safety reviews for existing hazardous processes, new product introductions, and engineering capital projects. Attention to detail and sound scientific problem solving will be fundamental to this role.

• Participate in the PHA program across the network, determine needs for additional layers of protection/safeguards to prevent major incidents, and work with sites to ensure implementation.
• Develop Process Safety guidance documents to define Abb Vie’s best practice for individual operations/engineering design with respect to Process Safety.
• Aid in the application of Process Safety elements as per the project development stages for both Engineering Capital Projects and New Process Introduction/Tech Transfer.
• Represent MES Process Safety on assigned Tech Transfer or Capital Project. Provide input for Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCE) to ensure that significant Process Safety aspects are properly integrated during the entire Front-End Planning Design Process for new product introduction, product transfer from site to site, site to third‑party manufacturing (TPM), TPM to site and changes/upgrades to existing processes and equipment.
• Support on site audits, to ensure that on key EHS technical programs, sites comply with applicable Process Safety requirements and corporate policies, utilize best‑industrial practices and best available techniques to identify and manage risk, and conform to company directives and standards.
• Complete and review process safety incident investigations and risk assessment screening for management of change.
• Collect process safety metrics, develop site dashboards for key programs, monitor EHS improvement of assigned processes.
• Champion a culture of Process Safety excellence.
• Key programs include:
  Technical Transfers (TT) and New Product Introduction (NPI), Engineering Capital Projects, EHS Change Management, Process Safety Management, Hazard identification and Risk Assessment:
  Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and Layer of Protection Assessment (LoPA), inert gas, ATEX area classification and chemical safety.

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and 3–5 years related industry experience.
• Demonstrated experience in process safety and process safety management systems is required.
• Training or experience with PHA an advantage.
• Working experience as a process or project professional in a chemical or pharmaceutical setting is preferred.
• Experience working within a regulatory environment is required.
• Positive track record of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with internal, external clients and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully negotiate with peers and customers is required.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.

North Chicago, IL $82,500.00 – $. 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.

Abb Vie 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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