Project Engineer, Packaging

Company Description

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

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An engineering professional who, working with little or no supervision, applies project management knowledge, engineering knowledge and ingenuity to complete medium size projects from concept thru project closure within or across disciplines.

• The Engineering professional designs, maintains, and optimizes the specialized equipment such as oral solid dose or capsules bottle filling or blister forming and filing equipment used to manufacture drugs, ensuring efficiency, safety, and strict regulatory compliance (like FDA rules) for equipment used in drug packaging, from oral solid dose tablets/capsules to complex medical devices. They focus on equipment development, qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), troubleshooting, automation (PLCs, HMI), process improvement, and collaboration across teams for new product integration, vital for scaling up from labs to mass production.
• The Senior Equipment Engineer will be responsible for the ownership, qualification, process ownership, and continuous improvement of advanced automated manufacturing equipment. This includes systems that integrate robotics, machine vision, servo motion control, pneumatics, and PLC-based automation. The role requires a hands‑on engineer with strong technical expertise to ensure high equipment uptime, process stability, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with Uhlmann Thermoforming and IBC bottle filling a plus as well as custom medical device sub‑assembly and final assembly technology solutions.

• Serve as the primary owner for automated manufacturing equipment, covering mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control subsystems.
• Develop and execute equipment qualification protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ) to support regulated manufacturing operations.
• Support new product introductions by adapting equipment tooling, automation sequences, and test protocols.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve throughput, yield, and OEE through equipment enhancements.
• Partner with equipment vendors on upgrades, retrofits, spare parts management, and FAT/SAT processes.
• Provide training and mentorship to technicians and junior engineers on equipment operation and troubleshooting.
• Ensure compliance with EHS standards and lockout/tagout requirements during interventions.
• Responsibilities of this engineering grade level inherently include and expand upon the responsibilities established for lower engineering grade levels.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures. Ensures quality and effectiveness of key results of major projects within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
• Has full awareness of the potential consequences (defects and failure modes) of design changes to established processes. Mitigates risk within functions through sound design, early risk assessments and implementation of fallback strategies.
• Develops, plans, coordinates and directs engineering aspects of projects of major scope and importance. Manages multiple, often concurrent projects and meets expectations. Understands the business needs and has a thorough knowledge of the customer when developing a project scope.
• Incorporates business foresight of emerging technological trends. Leads development of Project Charter and documents the initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations. Establishes engineering project objectives and technical criteria for evaluating project results and activities of the project team.
• Uses established PM tools and techniques (FEP, Cash Flow Projections, Scope / Schedule Control, etc.) to stay within…