
Engineering Manager
North Chicago, ILJob$110K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Engineering Manager provides technical and operational leadership for site engineering and maintenance teams, focusing on reliable manufacturing support. The role oversees troubleshooting, maintenance execution, continuous improvement, compliance, risk management, cross-functional coordination, team performance, budgets, contractors, and project delivery. Candidates are expected to bring substantial engineering and operations leadership experience; a bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience is desired, while an advanced technical degree is preferred.
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Company Description
About AbbVie
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, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/) Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvie/) , X (https://twitter.com/abbvie) and YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie)
Job Description
Purpose
Provide technical and operational leadership for the site’s engineering and maintenance teams, with a primary focus on reliable day-to-day manufacturing support. Ensure timely troubleshooting and resolution of equipment, facility, and process issues; effective execution of preventive and corrective maintenance; and delivery of continuous improvement projects. Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, and other functions to sustain safe, compliant, and efficient operations while developing a capable, accountable engineering and maintenance team.
Responsibilities
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Lead day-to-day engineering and maintenance support. Set priorities and coordinate team activities to support production needs, respond to operational issues, and minimize equipment downtime and disruption to manufacturing.
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Direct troubleshooting and issue resolution. Lead or coordinate timely investigation of equipment, process, utility, and facility problems; apply structured problem-solving and root cause analysis; and ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified.
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Oversee maintenance execution. Ensure preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work is planned, prioritized, assigned, and completed effectively, with appropriate work documentation, parts availability, and coordination with production schedules.
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Lead continuous improvement initiatives. Identify, prioritize, and execute projects that improve safety, quality, productivity, capacity, cost, and operational reliability. Define project scope, resources, schedules, and success measures, and track delivery through completion.
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Ensure compliance and safe execution. Hold the team accountable for following applicable site policies, engineering standards, EHS requirements, quality procedures, and GMP or other relevant regulatory requirements. Ensure maintenance and engineering changes are appropriately assessed, documented, reviewed, and approved.
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Assess and mitigate operational and project risk. Identify potential failure modes and impacts of equipment, process, or facility changes; conduct risk assessments; and establish appropriate controls, contingency plans, and fallback strategies.
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Coordinate across site functions. Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, Facilities, and other stakeholders to align maintenance priorities, resolve production-impacting issues, plan outages, and deliver engineering work with minimal operational disruption.
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Manage team resources and performance. Assign work based on business priorities and team capability; monitor workload and execution; set clear expectations; and support hiring, coaching, performance management, training, and development of engineers, technicians, and supervisors.
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Manage budgets, contractors, and work execution. Oversee assigned operating expenses, maintenance and project budgets, external service providers, and contractor work. Ensure resources are used responsibly and that work is completed safely, on schedule, and to required quality and technical standards.
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Qualifications
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Bachelors Degree in Engineering, science, or closely related discipline is desired or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence. Advanced degree in a technical field preferred.
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8+ years’ experience including: work as an individual contributor building technical expertise and proved project management skills. Progressively increased responsibility and performance as a supervisor, department manager in multiple areas of Operations. Post-graduate degree may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
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Business acumen coupled with leadership experience is required to drive high performance.
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Has demonstrated excellence across multiple engineering disciplines. Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
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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.
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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
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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.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Salary: $109,500
How this job compares
Set against the 5,619 open Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110K/yr
- Illinois median$135–220K/yr137 salary ranges
- US median$148–257K/yr4,521 salary ranges
This rate, $110K, is 39% below the Illinois median midpoint ($180K) — in the lowest quarter of Engineering Manager salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 145 open Engineering Manager jobs in Illinois and 5,619 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Farnsworth Group14 open
- Deloitte9 open
- Adyen8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (4,969 postings).
- Education
- 2,480 of the 5,619 open Engineering Manager jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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