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Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.\n Position Summary\nThe 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 AbbVie Global Engineering.\nThe role provides senior technical and organizational leadership for AbbVie’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.\nThe 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 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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.\n\nLead discipline input to front-end engineering, facility concepts, site master planning, investment option evaluation, business cases and technology selection.\n\nDefine 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.\n\nEnsure discipline assumptions, deliverables, risks, interfaces, resources and decisions are incorporated into program plans, cost estimates and execution strategies.\n\nEstablish project assurance priorities and direct senior technical reviews at concept, basic design, detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover stages.\n\nBalance safety, quality, compliance, reliability, sustainability, cost and schedule when making or recommending investment decisions.\n\nApply global lessons learned and network standards to improve project quality, speed, predictability and readiness across the portfolio.\n\nProvide clear escalation to the VP, Global Engineering and Strategic Investments leadership when decisions have material enterprise, program or network impact.\n\nElectrical and Utilities Technical Leadership\nLead technical decision-making for medium- and low-voltage power distribution, substations, transformers, switchgear, motor control, emergency and standby power, uninterruptible power supplies, grounding, lightning protection and electrical protection systems.\n\nProvide governance for electrical safety, arc-flash risk, hazardous-area classification interfaces, protection coordination, power quality, system studies and safe equipment lifecycle management.\n\nDirect strategies for clean utilities, including purified water, water for injection, clean steam, process gases and associated generation, storage, distribution, monitoring and sanitization systems.\n\nDirect strategies for black utilities, including plant steam, chilled water, cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, natural gas, wastewater and other supporting infrastructure.\n\nSet expectations for system capacity, redundancy, resilience, reliability, maintainability, energy efficiency and future expansion.\n\nEnsure electrical and utilities systems are appropriately integrated with process, HVAC, mechanical, civil, structural, automation, instrumentation and building-management systems.\n\nOversee technical reviews of load lists, single-line diagrams, utility balances, capacity models, equipment specifications, vendor packages, design calculations and commissioning strategies.\n\nEnsure engineering deliverables support GMP compliance, validation/CQV, safe operation, maintainability, sustainability and effective site handover.\n\nDrive timely resolution of complex technical issues and ensure decisions are documented, risk assessed and communicated.\n\nPeople Leadership and Organizational Capability\nLead, develop and retain a high-performing global team of electrical, clean-utilities and black-utilities technical experts.\n\nSet clear direction, priorities, objectives and performance expectations aligned with Global Engineering and Strategic Investments priorities.\n\nAllocate technical resources across programs and sites based on business criticality, project risk, specialist capability and portfolio demand.\n\nCoach and mentor technical leaders and subject-matter experts, strengthening technical judgment, leadership capability and succession readiness.\n\nEstablish structured development plans, knowledge-transfer mechanisms and succession plans for critical electrical and utilities capabilities.\n\nBuild an inclusive, accountable and collaborative culture focused on engineering 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evaluations for key electrical and utilities equipment and services.\n\nReview supplier performance and lead corrective action where technical quality, schedule, documentation or execution does not meet expectations.\n\nEnsure effective transition from project delivery to commissioning, qualification, operational readiness and sustained manufacturing support.\n\nPromote predictable delivery through standardization, reusable designs, disciplined change control and early risk identification.\n\nCross-Functional and Enterprise Leadership\nPartner with Strategic Investments, manufacturing operations, quality, validation/CQV, EHS, site engineering, MS&T, supply chain, finance, procurement, sustainability, digital/automation and related engineering disciplines.\n\nEnsure electrical and utilities decisions are integrated with manufacturing strategy, network capacity, regulatory expectations, technology deployment and site handover requirements.\n\nInfluence senior stakeholders across 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