Mechanical Engineer

Career Category

Engineering

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Mechanical Engineer

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world!

In this pivotal role, you will interact with global and multi-functional members from systems engineering, process engineering, device development, packaging, primary containers, device quality, and other groups.

• Author design control and technical documents, including test/verification plans, test protocols, test reports, engineering assessments, design outputs, and technical recommendations

• Hands-on testing of auto-injector devices, including the safe operation of test equipment and devices containing sharps (syringes)

• Develop a verification testing strategy to include differentiation between platform and combination product testing to ensure minimum duplication and maximum efficiency when commercializing multiple programs

• Ensure tests methods and test protocols are developed in a sound and robust framework with a high focus on eliminating test errors

• Prepare and provide communications to leadership in support of recommendations and assessments.

• Collaborate with and support manufacturing sites on design/fabrication of assembly and labeling equipment

• Provide complex mechanical design support to the mechanical engineering design organization.

• Conceptualize, design, and manufacture robust, accurate, and precise test fixtures to support test activities

• Familiarity with solid modeling (SolidWorks) and mechanical drawings using standard methodologies in accordance with ANSI/ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Standard and Y14.100 Engineering Drawing Practices

• Supply to and/or lead the implementation of drug delivery design projects in different therapeutic areas, including nephrology, oncology, psoriasis, RA

• Develop, implement, and review mechanical specifications, development plans, characterization plans, and other related development documents for assigned projects.

• Provide technical feedback for mechanical problems to programs as needed.

• Tolerance and robustness analysis of complex mechanical designs

• Design with emphasis on DFM/DFA; with close collaboration and guidance from the manufacturing team and other engineering groups

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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 experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 6 years of Engineering experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Engineering experience OR

• Master’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, preferred Mechanical, Electrical, or BioMed

• 1 or more years of experience as an engineer within the medical device design field

• 1 or more years of experience in project leadership within a development or research, manufacturing environment, working with medical devices, ideally class II and class III

• Broad set of knowledge and expertise in contributing to complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-functional product development efforts

• Experience in drug/device combination product design and development

• Background in development, commercialization, and lifecycle management of medical devices

• Experience with material & test specification generation, protocol/report authorship, process, and test development, prototyping, design verification, DOE/SPC process optimization & validation (IQ, OQ, PQ), FMEA

• Experience implementing lab tests, including safe and proper operation of lab equipment (Instron tensile tester, Keyence inspection equipment, etc.)

• Experience conceptualizing, designing, and building test fixtures

• Experience in injection molded plastic part design, molding process, 3D solid modeling, and device assembly