Description
**Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients**
At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.
Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.
Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
**Engineer**
**What you will do**
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.
As a member of the Amgen Manufacturing & Clinical Supplies – Facilities & Engineering (MCS-F&E) Analytical Engineering team you will support Clinical and Commercial Drug Substance plant operations. This role provides system owner oversight and lifecycle management of a wide range of devices in multiple production areas such as cell counters, metabolite analyzers, blood gas analyzers, osmometers, spectrophotometers, endotoxin analyzers, TOC analyzers, and filter integrity testers. The successful candidate will work cross functionally to ensure uptime of equipment, improve reliability, coordinate troubleshooting activities with the team and vendor, manage preventative maintenance, spare parts, SOPs, and forms, and help drive continuous improvement activities.
**Role Responsibilities:**
+ Serve as team lead working with individuals and teams in Analytical, Engineering, Instrumentation, and Manufacturing to support plant operations.
+ Lead/support technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and troubleshooting on a diverse portfolio of analytical systems
+ Perform job plan and preventative maintenance schedule optimization to reduce labor hours required to maintain instruments
+ Own change control records, CAPA records and deviations as it relates to analytical systems
+ Coordinate offsite vendor support and maintenance of equipment service contracts
+ Lead and support new technology introduction and lifecycle replacements of aging equipment by ensuing qualification requirements are met
+ Provide Continuous Improvement initiatives to mitigate potential failures and reduce production delay hours
+ Maintain Data Integrity Assessments with the current Amgen and Industry standards.
+ Support staff proficiency by training team members and standardizing best practices
+ Collaborate with Amgen Drug Substance Plant network to enhance knowledge base and identify improvements for implementation at ATO
+ Draft and revise standard operating procedures, forms, and reports
+ Manage spart parts inventory and strategy for level 1, GMP equipment
+ Be knowledgeable about compliance and regulatory aspects for operation and maintenance, equipment validation, and support regulatory inspections and audits.
+ Day-to-day Operational Support including:
+ Direct Manufacturing Support required for Critical Operations
+ 24 x 7 Onsite/On Call as required.
+ Trouble shooting Support for analytical instruments in multiple DS plants
+ Analytical Equipment Administration
+ Daily manufacturing and engineering work center team meetings
+ Preventative and corrective maintenance
+ Spare parts management
**What we expect of you**
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.
**Basic Qualifications:**
+ High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Engineering or Operations experience OR
+ Associate’s degree and 6 years of Engineering or Operations experience OR
+ Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Engineering or Operations experience OR
+ Master’s degree
**What you can expect of us**
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
+ A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
+ A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
+ Stock-based long-term incentives
+ Award-winning time-off plans
+ Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.
**Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.**
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**Sponsorship**
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
