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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.

Instrumentation Technician

What you will do

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

In this vital role, you will provide technical expertise and guidance supporting the start-up of the plant and daily operations.

Initial Focus (years 1 and 2):

• Partner with the Capital Project Delivery and Site Operations team providing technical support associated with the start-up, commissioning, and qualification of the wide variety of equipment and systems used in Manufacturing, Laboratories, Utilities, and other areas at the site.

• Support development, writing and implementation of the Maintenance program documentation including Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Work Orders (WO), Job Plans (JP), Hazard Risk Assessments (HRA), Job Hazard Assessments (JHA), etc.

• Ensure safety of all staff during plant construction and start-up operations and maintenance activities.

Post-Construction completion and continued operations:

• Perform scheduled calibration and corrective maintenance and repair activities on equipment and systems used across the ARC site

• Troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems.

• Ensure activities are accomplished in a safe manner and with quality.

• Adhere to Standard Operating Procedures and cGMPs

• Work in a highly productive and efficient manner to maximize the quantity of activities completed.

• Ensure work is appropriately communicated to system operators and key stakeholders.

• Ensure work order documentation is completed accurately and on time.

• Identify waste, workflow interrupters, and other opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and assisting with implementation.

• Identify opportunities to learn new skills and actively participate in development that will improve overall team performance.

• Provide support when required - this may be outside of normal working hours including nights, weekends and holidays.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The motivated professional we seek is a team-player with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 4 years of Calibration and instrumentation experience OR

• 2 years in a technical school setting with hands-on calibration experience in instrumentation OR

• Associate degree and 2 years of operations or manufacturing experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 + years of combined education, training, and experience with instrumentation and associated calibration procedures.

• Ability to work with minimum direction.

• Knowledge of Maximo CMMS System.

• Advanced understanding of process control loops, loop checks, and loop tuning of process control systems.

• Experience with Rosemount instrumentation, Foundation Fieldbus communications, and Delta V process control system.

• Formal instrumentation education or training (Associates Degree, Armed Services, or other substantial technical training program(s) Demonstrated ability to successfully work in teams and utilize science-based collaboration to drive continuous improvements.

• Experience utilizing World Class Maintenance initiatives to deliver positive outcomes.

• Experience working effectively with others who have different perspectives, backgrounds and/or styles.

• Proven leadership skills in the areas of safety, quality, and compliance.

What you can expect of us

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