Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

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.

Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Be part of Amgen's newest and most advanced drug substance manufacturing plant. When completed, the Amgen FleX Batch facility will combine the latest in disposable technologies with traditional stainless-steel equipment to allow for maximum flexibility in operations. The FleX Batch facility will not only feature the best in-class drug substance manufacturing technologies with embedded industry 4.0 capabilities, but it will also integrate sustainability innovations to reduce carbon and waste, as part of Amgen's plan to be a carbon-neutral company by 2027.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will drive overall program success by applying program and project management principles to teams, partnering with business and technology leaders to ensure comprehensive alignment, and finding optimized ways to deliver efficiency and quality for our partners.

The Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer will join the Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI) team to help drive efficiency through the company using technology to unlock opportunities to stop, optimize processes and then automate as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee, manage and maintain various digital platforms, such as DeltaV, Korber MES, Siemens BAS, Enlighted, Rockwell Automation Platform, AR/VR, Electronic Forms, and more.

• Act as the primary DTI contact for the business, offering platform support and digital solutions.

• Lead the execution of diverse digital platform projects, ensuring proper portfolio planning, resource allocation, risk management, and financial oversight.

• Stay updated on industry and technology trends and build external networks to gain valuable insights from peers in the industry.

• Conduct cross-system and feasibility analyses, define project scopes, prioritize deliverables, and recommend optimal solutions. Manage multiple initiatives and priorities effectively.

• Foster strong relationships with digital platforms service owners, business partners, enterprise service partners, and vendors.

• Gather and analyze business stakeholder needs, translating them into functional designs.

• Handle digital platform activities, including system administration, troubleshooting, vendor management, platform lifecycle management, and addressing business requirements.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The engineering professional we seek will have these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree, OR

• Master’s degree and 2+ years of Information Systems/Technology and/or Engineering experience, OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of Information Systems/Technology and/or Engineering experience, OR

• Associate’s degree and 8+ years of Information Systems/Technology and/or Engineering experience, OR

• High school diploma/GED and 10+ years of Information Systems/Technology and/or Engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a manufacturing environment, with more than 5 years of proven expertise in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industries.

• Proficient in handling and managing computerized systems, including troubleshooting, enhancing reliability, and improving performance.

• Solid understanding of Information Systems infrastructure services fundamentals and operations, such as Storage, VMs, Network, Active Directory, etc.

• Familiarity with methods and technologies supporting Manufacturing Data integrations, including SQL, Web Services/messaging, and