Senior Manager, Infrastructure Project

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AbbVie'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 AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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At 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.

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 https://www.abbvie.com/abbvie-north-carolina-manufacturing.html

We 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 cross‑functional 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 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.

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.

Education

• Required: Bachelor’s 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.

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 Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

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