Process Development Associate - ARI

Career Category

Process Development

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.

Process Development Associate

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will contribute towards Amgen’s Drug Substance Process Development for commercial biologics programs, including the development, characterization, and scale-up of upstream and downstream manufacturing processes to marketing application. This role is within an integrated organization in which cell culture and purification scientists work together to advance Amgen's rich commercial portfolio.

Amgen is seeking a Process Development Associate to join the Commercial Drug Substance Technologies (DST) organization in West Greenwich, RI. The Process Development Associate will help design and perform experiments at the bench scale that span the end-to-end Drug Substance process, from cell culture to purification operations. In this role, you will apply established platform approaches and use problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges. Additionally, the Process Development Associate will apply out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development and will demonstrate the desire to expand and develop expertise in both cell culture and purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group. The Process Development Associate will join a diverse team with varied levels of experience and report to a Process Development Senior Scientist.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute within a project team on commercial manufacturing goals such as improving process yield and robustness, and scaling-up processes to manufacturing sites

• Perform small-scale bioprocess experiments that encompass upstream (cell culture) operations

• Responsibilities may include maintaining cultures in shake flasks, culture bags, and benchtop bioreactors and automation programming for benchtop bioreactors

• Experimental design and data interpretation, leveraging in-house visualization and analytics tools

• Communication of findings through oral presentations and written documentation (technical reports as well as GMP documents to support regulatory filings)

• Provide scientific technical support for technology transfer of processes to manufacturing sites.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The scientific professional we seek is a collaborative individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Associate's degree and 2 years of Scientific experience OR

• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Biomedical, or related Engineering; Life Sciences; or other relevant sciences

• Experience and demonstrated interest in laboratory work, particularly hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture operations

• Basic understanding of cell culture principles

• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems by applying scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and collaborative environment with diverse team members

• Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

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