
Automation Validation Engineer
North Chicago, ILJob$79K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Automation Validation Engineer provides leadership and direction for software validation activities supporting operational technology projects and manufacturing automation. The role develops and reviews validation documentation, executes test cases, supports factory acceptance testing, and works across project phases to ensure software quality and compliance. It also manages validation reviews, data integrity and security lifecycles, remediation, audit interactions, and project delivery within time and budget constraints.
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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
Provides leadership and direction in software validation activities including: reviewing software requirement documents; writing and reviewing validation documents (test plans/strategy and detailed test cases/instructions); executing and reviewing validation test cases; updating departmental procedures and templates.
Responsibilities
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This position will be responsible to provide validation support for OT projects, primarily DeltaV and/or Allen-Bradley PLCs, and ongoing manufacturing automation validation support activities.
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Support Factory Acceptance Testing in conjunction with Project Engineers to confirm unit is acceptable.
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The APC Validation Engineer is responsible for ensuring software quality assurance is achieved during OT projects while meeting project objectives and deliverables.
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The position is responsible for working with Project Managers on all phases of the System Development Life Cycle process.
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Position is responsible for managing all validation activities such as protocol writing, identification of risk controls, reviewing of validation documents, storage of controlled documents and providing resolution to problem reports.
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Perform minor troubleshooting of issues encountered during commissioning and documentation of unresolved issues.
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Responsible for implementing Validation Quality Assurance standard into departmental documents and ensuring all departmental training is complete.
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Responsible for ownership of the OT System Periodic Validation Review, Data Integrity, and Data Security lifecycles, including management and execution of remediation task closures.
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The APC Validation Engineer works as a liaison between OT/Automation department and the Validation Quality Assurance department and will be responsible for audit activities such as interacting with auditors.
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The APC Validation Engineer is responsible for completing project tasks within time and budget constraints.
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May supervise contract validation resources in the timely completion of activities in his/her area of responsibility
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Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred plus 5 years experience, or Master’s degree plus 4 years experience preferred, or sufficient experience to demonstrate technical equivalency.
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Experience in one or more of the following: IS support role, Systems Testing, OT Implementation, Quality Assurance, Supervisory, Project Management
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 short-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: $78,500
How this job compares
Set against the 458 open Validation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$79K/yr
- US median$120–172K/yr242 salary ranges
This rate, $79K, is 46% below the US median midpoint ($145K) — in the lowest quarter of Validation Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Validation Engineer jobs in Illinois and 458 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Validation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (351 postings).
- Education
- 252 of the 458 open Validation Engineer jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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