Technical Trainer - 2nd Shift - 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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Purpose:

Trains operators on production related jobs in the department. Actively provides production support operating the equipment. Oversees and maintains training programs for the department. Strong operating or setup and troubleshooting knowledge of complex equipment and manufacturing monitoring systems. Displays AbbVie behaviors.

Responsibilities:

• Schedules training activities for exempt and non-exempt personnel in accordance with individual training plans.
• Develops strategies to correct deficiencies in the training program.
• Own development for new technologies coming on site, stay up to date on new equipment and production line changes.
  Conducts all business in a professional manner. Confronts issues in a constructive manner at an appropriate organizational level and takes ownership of tasks.
  Participates in the sharing of information to promote overall efficiency of production. Attends and actively participates in meetings.
• Remain current and compliant on all required trainer qualifications.
• Enhance own technical background through continuous learning, including understanding of all production areas or value streams.
  Actively participates as direct labor when not actively training production specialists and technicians
• Collaborate with training colleagues to drive on time training compliance and effective training.
• Exercises job knowledge to independently perform job responsibilities and provides on the job training to production specialists and technicians.
• Knowledgeable and able to perform as an production specialist or technician on all jobs in assigned area of responsibility and Good Manufacturing Practices policies. Demonstrates compliance to local and industry quality and safety standards.
• Sets example and enforces all safety, quality, environmental, operational and personnel policies. Communicates all operational events and issues with appropriate individuals.
• Develops, maintains, audits, verifies, and improves the Basic Operating Procedures (BOPs), Training Materials and Training Programs.
• Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required
• Frequent to continuous computer usage (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) is required
• Work in noisy environment
• Wear ear plugs
• Work in a clean room environment
• Repeated bending, stooping, squatting or kneeling is required

• High school diploma or GED required, and 5 – 6 years cGMP manufacturing experience operating or setting up and troubleshooting automatic, manual, or semi-automated equipment in production processes in accordance with operating procedures is strongly preferred.
• Effectively transfer knowledge through strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Technical experience and troubleshooting aptitude in manufacturing and packaging
• Basic computer skills and ability to learn new programs and applications required.
• A demonstrated focus and understanding of the importance of maintaining the highest level of quality and ensuring compliance to site level policies and procedures.
• Ability to communicate issues to appropriate operations, engineering and mechanical teams required and the capability of reading P&IDs.
• Proficient understanding of HMI controls, vision inspection systems, and product serialization systems in order to troubleshoot and resolve inefficiencies in a timely manner. Evaluate data and understand trends and alarms.
• Proficient with systems such as POMs, SAP, and MAXIMO
• Preferred: Technical certificate or degree.
• Preferred: Training experience (2-3 years).

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.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

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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. ​

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AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html