Senior Process 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.

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.

Senior Process Engineer   

What you will do 

In this vital role you will be joining the Facilities & Engineering (F&E) group to partner closely with the corporate engineering team to design, build, commission, and qualify new equipment and systems needed for drug substance production. This role will develop domain expertise and system ownership to support process operations, focusing on Upstream and Downstream Process engineering and plant equipment. 

Site design, construction, start-up, and operational readiness: 

• Support the design and build of manufacturing equipment systems by aligning design review processes and documents with site requirements, including equipment design and sizing, architecture and electrical distribution, and piping and instrumentation diagrams.  

• Support factory acceptance testing working in partnership with global engineering during site installation, including reviewing protocols and resolving punch list items.  

• Work with capital project team to ensure systems are installed and operating safely and comply with pertinent environmental health/safety practice, rules and regulations as well as Amgen global engineering requirements. Ensure that systems are installed per the design requirements.  

• Execute and guide the commissioning and validation of systems to ensure their operational capability is aligned with <