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Welcome to AbbVie! As part of an international company with 50,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity of addressing some of tomorrows unmet medical needs in close collaboration with your colleagues. Are you passionate about improving global health care? Do you want to contribute to improving patients' quality of life through your expertise? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? You’ve come to the right place! 

Strategic Investment and EHS is part of the Operations Transformation organization and supports initiatives that strengthen operational performance, enable strategic investments, and advance environmental, health, and safety excellence. The group partners across the organization to drive sustainable improvements, manage risk, and deliver solutions that support AbbVie’s business and operational priorities.

We are looking for a Director Global Engineering Programs OUS Projects to provide strategic project management, direction, and oversight for the Global Engineering Programs department. The position is responsible for coordinating facility and utility projects to ensure compliance with AbbVie standards and specifications, developing resource plans for approved projects, and recommending the appropriate use of internal and external resources throughout facility planning, design, and execution. The Director also establishes and maintains effective relationships with external engineering and construction organizations—including architecture and engineering firms, construction management companies, consultants, and contractors—to ensure that project design, timelines, costs, and quality requirements are achieved. In addition, the role is responsible for managing and leveraging common engineering systems to support consistent and efficient project delivery.

As Director Global Engineering Programs OUS Projects you:

• Are accountable for all processes, policies and procedures related to Capital and Facilities Planning, Engineering Best practices and Systems and the Engineering Center of Excellence.

• Define and document expectations related to Good Engineering Practice and Project Execution Methodology and Track project execution for targeted projects and report performance metrics.
• Are Responsible for strategic planning and facility asset utilization for AbbVie corporate wide including LRP facilities/space master planning.
• Have overall responsibility for AbbVie-wide capital planning process (Plan and LRP) for major (>$5MM) investments in Facilities/Utilities/Equipment.
• Conduct and record benchmarking of project management best practices within AbbVie, professional associations, A/E firms, and other peer companies.
• Provide and oversee discipline specific engineering expertise to corporate wide stakeholders through AbbVie's Technical Experts group.
• Take Accountability for overall Engineering Capital Plan of approximately $400MM and for the department’s payroll and expense budget, including outside contractor services.