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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 AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.\n New to North Carolina. Known for pursuing breakthroughs in medicine.\nReady to join our team?\nAt AbbVie, we bring together talented people and innovative science to develop medicines that help patients. Now, we’re 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.\nThe 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.\nTo learn more about this investment, please visit https://www.abbvie.com/abbvie-north-carolina-manufacturing.html\nWe are now recruiting ourSenior Manager, Infrastructure Project as part of the core start up leadership team.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nThe job leads technical workstreams and contributes to program outcomes by developing actionable methods and analyses, collaborating with cross-functional partners to integrate technical solutions throughout the lifecycle, and advising on complex technical decisions and risks.\nDefines 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.\nDelivers 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 high-quality 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.\nKey Roles and Responsibilities\nDeliver 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.\nOwn 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.\nCoordinate 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.\nExecute 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.\nAdminister 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.\nCoordinate 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.\nDrive 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.\n Education\nRequired: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.\n Preferred: Advanced degree, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or relevant engineering or project-management credentials.\nExperience\nRecommended minimum: At least 10 years of relevant engineering or capital-project experience, including direct accountability for delivering complex infrastructure projects or major packages.\nDemonstrated delivery experience spanning planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or comparable regulated manufacturing environments.\nExperience with campus utilities, building systems, site infrastructure, or support facilities, including interfaces with cGMP manufacturing operations.\nHands-on experience managing scope, budgets, forecasts, schedules, risk, contractor performance, procurement activities, contract administration, and change control.\nExperience leading multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating designers, contractors, vendors, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, Procurement, EHS, and Quality in a matrixed organization.\nPreferred: Greenfield campus or major expansion experience; commissioning and qualification exposure; and implementation of Factory of the future concepts relevant to infrastructure delivery.\nCore skills and capabilities\nProject execution and accountability: Converts portfolio priorities into practical package plans and drives deliverables to completion within delegated authority.\nTechnical and design integration: Understands utilities, infrastructure, building systems, and applicable cGMP design principles; integrates operational requirements, vendor inputs, and project interfaces.\nFinancial and schedule management: Uses budgets, forecasts, integrated schedules, milestones, and performance measures to identify variances and drive corrective action.\nCommercial and contract management: Develops clear scopes, evaluates bids, administers approved contracts, monitors contractor obligations, and applies disciplined change control.\nRisk management and problem-solving: Anticipates constraints, evaluates options and delivery impacts, implements mitigation, and escalates decisions with clear recommendations.\nConstruction and commissioning readiness: Coordinates safety, quality, completion, testing, turnover documentation, and operational handover across delivery teams.\nTeam leadership and stakeholder influence: Directs and coaches assigned team members, builds accountability, and aligns stakeholders without relying on formal reporting authority.\n Communication and continuous improvement: Provides concise status and decision updates, maintains reliable project records, and applies lessons learned to improve delivery consistency.\nApplicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:\nThe 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. 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