Director, Engineering Projects

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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Director - Engineering Projects

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a highly skilled team in the delivery of Amgen’s capital project portfolio in eastern North America to provide Amgen with the facilities and capabilities it needs to serve our future patients around the globe. This includes management of a diverse portfolio of capital projects spanning GMP production facilities, Development laboratories, and office and collaboration areas.

This position is also a member of the Global Capital projects leadership team that looks to continually innovate as an industry leader in the delivery of capital projects while learning from our external partners and peers around the world.

Job Summary

The Director of Engineering Projects manages the capital project portfolio across Amgen’s facilities in eastern North America. This includes Amgen’s largest GMP Drug Substance site in Rhode Island, Process Development Innovation Hub in Cambridge MA, North America Distribution Center in Kentucky, Shared Services center in Tampa, Lab and office facilities in Rockville, and Deerfield and other office locations in the eastern US and Canada. This position is responsible for defining project scope, forming project teams, ensuring safe execution, developing project strategy, master schedules and spending schedules. The director shall provide day to day management and leadership including mentoring, staff development and work prioritization for a team of direct and indirect reports. In addition, the director shall provide input into department objectives and establishment of strategic direction within the Global Capital Project Management team.

Other responsibilities include ensuring the health of the capital portfolio in the following areas:

• Safe execution (being purposefully present on job site and leading by example)
• Project objectives that meet business goals with accurate interpretation company policies
• Project funding processes (governance approvals of scope, cash flow, schedule, and deliverables)
• Motivating project teams to meet ambitious targets
• Contractor evaluation and selection process
• Logistics system, including RFQ’s, bid selection materials management, invoice approval.
• Inclusion and belonging for all integrated teams across the portfolio
• Governance, including progress vs. schedule vs. cost with appropriate teams and provide regular updates to client and management

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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 possess these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

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Master's degree and 8 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

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Bachelor's degree and 10 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years of managing people in a multi-tiered organization and directing the allocation of resources
• Experience leading teams, projects, and programs
• Excellent communication
• Strong safety focus with consistent track record of creating strong safety cultures on their projects
• Firm understanding of construction, start-up and commissioning
• Demonstrated track record of successful project execution in operating GMP plants
• Strong collaborator, problem solver and solution oriented
• Demonstrated interpersonal and facilitation skills and ability to work in a collaborative team- based environment.
• Extremely organized and thinks