Facility & Utilities Manager, Abbott Healthcare Vietnam
About this opportunity
ABOUT ABBOTT
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
WORKING AT ABBOTT
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
Primary Job Function
Responsible for ensuring the reliable, compliant, and efficient operation of all facility, utility, HVAC, and BMS systems supporting GMP manufacturing operations, while maintaining inspection readiness and business continuity
Reporting to Senior Engineering Manager (Expat)
Supervisory/Management Responsibilities: About 4 employees are directly managed
Core Job Responsibilities
Ensure reliable, compliant, and efficient operation of all facility, utility, HVAC, and BMS systems supporting manufacturing and laboratory operations.
Maintain critical utility systems and partner with the Maintenance Manager to ensure all utilities remain in a qualified and inspection-ready state.
Provide technical leadership for HVAC, environmental control, utility performance, investigations, and CAPAs.
Lead Engineering readiness for regulatory inspections, customer audits, and GMP self-inspections while ensuring compliance with cGMP, EU GMP, and company requirements.
Partner with Qualification & Validation to maintain the validated state of facilities and utilities through qualification, requalification, change control, and lifecycle management.
Drive maintenance, reliability, and asset management strategies to improve equipment performance, compliance, and business continuity.
Manage engineering contractors and support site infrastructure and improvement plans.
Develop engineering capabilities and promote a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and inspection readiness.
Position Accountability/Scope:
The Facilities & Utilities Manager is accountable for the reliable, compliant, and efficient operation of all facility, utility, HVAC, and Building Management Systems (BMS) supporting GMP manufacturing operations
The position is responsible for maintaining all facilities and critical utility systems in a state of control and inspection readiness, ensuring compliance with cGMP, EU GMP, EHS, and company requirements
Job requirements
At least 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing or other GMP-regulated industries, with strong knowledge of cGMP, EU GMP, and facility/utilities compliance requirements
Experience leading or supervising engineering teams, including work assignment, people development, and performance management.
Practical knowledge and experience with HVAC, BMS, compressed air, purified water systems, utilities, and facility infrastructure within a GMP environment.
Experience supporting GMP inspections, customer audits, and internal audits, including deviation investigations, CAPA management, and change control.
Strong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and data-driven decision-making skills.
Strong teamwork, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Good English communication skills, both written and verbal.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and relevant engineering software.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Facilities & Administration role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 70 comparable Manager Facilities & Administration roles across 29 biopharma companies.
Salary context
20 of 70 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
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Seniority mix
70 of 70 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
1 of 70 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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