Director, Engineering, Utilities & Electrical

Director, Engineering, Utilities & Electrical

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 182000
• Salary Max: 346000
• Workday Global Grade: 22
• Travel:
  Yes, 20% of the Time
• Compensation: USD 182,000 - USD 346,000 - yearly

About Abb Vie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  .

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Position Summary

The Director, Utilities & Electrical owns strategic discipline leadership, people leadership, technical governance and project enablement for electrical power systems, clean utilities, black utilities, energy infrastructure, reliability, maintainability, electrical safety and operational readiness within Abb Vie Global Engineering.

The role provides senior technical and organizational leadership for Abb Vie’s global manufacturing network and strategic capital investments through standards ownership, front-end engineering support, technical decision-making, project risk management and disciplined execution across priority investment programs, manufacturing sites and technology platforms.

The Director leads and develops a global team of electrical and utilities technical experts, establishes clear priorities and accountabilities, and ensures the organization has the capability and capacity required to support brownfield expansions, modernization programs, debottlenecking, infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle asset replacement and greenfield manufacturing investments.

The role serves as the senior Global Engineering authority for electrical and utilities strategy, ensuring systems are safe, compliant, resilient, energy efficient, maintainable and capable of supporting current and future manufacturing requirements.

The Director partners with Strategic Investments, project delivery teams, operations, quality, EHS, validation/CQV, site engineering, sustainability, digital/automation and external engineering partners to deliver technically robust, scalable and business-aligned engineering solutions.

Global Engineering Governance and Standards

• Establish, own and deploy global engineering standards, design criteria, specifications, technical practices and governance expectations for electrical power systems, clean utilities, black utilities, energy infrastructure, reliability, maintainability and electrical safety.
• Act as the senior discipline authority for material electrical and utilities decisions affecting safety, quality, compliance, cost, schedule, operability, resilience or lifecycle value.
• Define discipline strategy and multiyear capability roadmaps aligned with Abb Vie’s manufacturing network strategy, sustainability objectives and strategic investment priorities.
• Govern consistent application of standards, design principles, lessons learned and engineering playbooks across regions, sites and capital projects.
• Establish assurance and review processes that verify technical quality at key project stage gates.
• Lead resolution and escalation of significant discipline risks, deviations from standards and cross-project technical issues.
• Represent Global Engineering in enterprise technical governance forums and communicate clear, executive-ready recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Strategic Capital Investment Leadership

• Provide senior owner-side engineering leadership for the electrical and utilities scope of strategic capital investments, including new facilities, major capacity programs, technology platform deployments, infrastructure solutions and lifecycle asset strategies.
• Lead discipline input to front-end engineering, facility concepts, site master planning, investment option evaluation, business cases and technology selection.
• Define electrical and utilities design strategies for strategic projects, including power architecture, utility generation and distribution, redundancy philosophy, capacity planning, energy performance, maintainability, monitoring and operational readiness.
• Ensure discipline assumptions, deliverables, risks, interfaces, resources and decisions are incorporated into program plans, cost estimates and execution strategies.
• Establish project assurance priorities and direct senior technical reviews at…