Executive Director, Facilities & Engineering

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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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions.

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.

Executive Director, Facilities & Engineering (ARI Site Facilities & Engineering)

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role as Executive Director, Facilities & Engineering, you will lead the organization responsible for supporting GMP manufacturing operations (24x7x365) while optimizing asset lifecycle management across the site for biologics drug substance manufacturing, warehousing, central utilities, quality control laboratories, process development laboratories, and administrative facilities.

The Executive Director, Facilities & Engineering (F&E) reports directly to the Vice President, Amgen Rhode Island (ARI) Site Operations and the Facilities & Engineering organization includes the following functional areas: Facilities, Maintenance & Utilities; Process & Equipment Engineering; and Project Engineering.

Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership

• Serve as a member of the ARI Site Leadership Team (SLT)

• Serve as a member of the Global Engineering Leadership Team (ELT)

• Align team vision, mission, strategic objectives, and goals with ARI site priorities and Global Engineering strategies

• Foster and sustain a resilient safety culture across the organization

• Ensure ongoing compliance and regulatory inspection readiness

• Provide technical leadership in assessing emerging industry trends and partnering with vendors to identify innovative opportunities that improve reliability, efficiency, agility, and competitive differentiation

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key site and network stakeholders

• Ensure active engagement and participation of the ARI site within Amgen global networks

• Participate in cross-functional daily management meetings within manufacturing operations, as required

• Oversee talent management processes, including performance management, career development, and succession planning

• Oversee the Facilities & Engineering budget and forecasting processes

• Own site facilities and infrastructure strategies to support business continuity and risk mitigation

• Advance Business Intelligence capabilities through effective extraction, analysis, and trending of performance data to drive operational improvements

Process & Equipment Engineering

• Foster a culture that prioritizes safety while ensuring work is performed in a compliant, effective, and efficient manner

• Provide process engineering and automation technical support, including 24x7 on-call support, to troubleshoot issues and ensure reliable and compliant manufacturing and utility operations

• Lead product reintroduction activities, ensuring seamless integration into existing processes and systems

• Provide oversight and accountability for Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs

• Lead asset management activities, including maintenance strategies, job plans, and spare parts management

• Partner with Manufacturing to optimize single-use technologies and components

• Ensure effective management of equipment-related deviations, including robust root cause analyses (RCA), timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and execution of change management activities

• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational effectiveness and efficiency, including exec