Utilities Automation Engineer

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Job 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.

Utilities Automation Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will support complex and challenging utility automation initiatives that require understanding of analytical problem-solving techniques, project management, lifecycle management and Operational Excellence. Additionally, the person is responsible for providing project leadership and daily operational support to the Automation Engineering team at the Amgen Rhode Island site.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provides technical support to commercial manufacturing and utilities operations, specific to process control, automation infrastructure, and utility systems

• Works closely with multiple teams, including manufacturing, process engineering, utility operations, maintenance, quality assurance, and validation to implement operational improvements and projects

• Leads and supports technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and fixing process control issues related to electrical, instrumentation and control systems supporting utility generation and distribution systems

• Provides technical support to troubleshoot and resolve equipment, automation, or process issues in the field

• Develop original code to support operational changes and optimizations on multiple utility PLC platforms

• Perform system owner responsibilities such as change control, maintenance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery

• Devises new approaches to complex problems through adaptations and modifications of standard automation technical principles

• Develop, organize, analyze, and present results for operational issues and engineering projects of small scope and complexity

• Communicates with multiple levels within the organization, highlighting issues and proposing solutions

• Provides technical support and issue resolution 24x7 on-call support of Automation systems on a rotational based frequency

• Applies experience and knowledge of industry best practices and tools to attain an innovative organization

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dedicated professional we seek is a collaborative teammate with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 6 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR

• Master’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree related technical field

• 3+ years’ experience in Automation Engineering in a GMP manufacturing environment with at least 1+ year experience in the Life Sciences industries

• 3+ years’ combined experience with the following product platforms: Allen-Bradley PLCs, FactoryTalk suite of applications

• Experience with the following automation platforms a plus: Siemens Step-7/TIA Portal, WinCC, Siemens Desigo, iFix SCADA, OSI PI, Emerson DeltaV

• Direct experience in a regulated environment (e.g. GMP, OSHA, EPA) including a detailed understanding of current good manufacturing practices

• Familiarity with industry standards for process control systems, software development life cycle methodologies, ISA-S88, 21 CFR Part 11, Validation, and GAMP

• Experience with WFI generation/storage/distribution, clean steam generation, chillers/boilers, gas storage/distribution (e.g. Oxygen), building automation preferred

• Experience with va