At AbbVie, we are committed to discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions that address serious health challenges and improve lives around the world. Our Westport manufacturing site is a global centre of excellence, combining advanced manufacturing technologies with a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
We are seeking an experienced Associate Director of Maintenance to provide strategic and operational leadership for our maintenance and engineering function. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and compliance of manufacturing and utility equipment while leading a high-performing engineering team.
The successful candidate will drive maintenance excellence, support operational performance, champion continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the site maintenance function to maximise equipment reliability, performance, and uptime.
- Establish departmental goals, priorities, and performance metrics aligned with site and business objectives.
- Manage preventive and corrective maintenance activities across manufacturing and utility systems.
- Drive maintenance excellence and reliability engineering programmes to improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
- Lead the planning and execution of engineering and maintenance projects, including equipment upgrades and process improvements.
- Develop, monitor, and manage engineering budgets and capital expenditure projects.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory, quality, environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- Support internal, corporate, and external regulatory audits and inspections.
- Collaborate closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, and other site functions to optimise manufacturing performance.
- Oversee calibration activities and ensure compliance with maintenance and asset management programmes.
- Manage contractor relationships, negotiate service agreements, and supervise external service providers.
- Lead investigations, root cause analyses, CAPA implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise on engineering and maintenance-related matters.
- Drive a culture of safety, operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
People Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of maintenance and engineering professionals.
- Set performance objectives and support employee development through regular feedback, coaching, and succession planning.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team environment.
- Contribute to broader talent management initiatives and organisational development activities.