Director, Engineering - Process and Automation

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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.

Director, Engineering - Process and Automation

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead and manage upstream, downstream, and automation engineering functions. This position is responsible for overseeing 24x7 Engineering Technical Support, New Product Introductions, change controls for Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs), and continuous improvement opportunities. The Director will be an integral part of the Facilities and Engineering Leadership team as well as the Site’s Extended Leadership Team. Additionally, the successful candidate will be expected to anticipate the future needs of the Facilities and Engineering organization and the site overall, and actively participate in network forums such as the Engineering Global Network.

• Condition a Safety Mindset: Foster a culture that prioritizes safety for all staff members while working in a compliant, effective, and efficient manner.

• Responsible for management of Upstream, Downstream and Automation Engineering team.

• 24x7 Engineering Technical Support: Supervise the provision of round-the-clock technical support to address and resolve engineering issues promptly.

• New Product Introductions: Oversee the introduction of new products, ensuring seamless integration into existing processes and systems.

• Change Controls for CAPAs: Implement and manage change controls for Corrective and Preventive Actions to ensure compliance and continual improvement.

• Continuous Improvement Opportunities: Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational effectiveness and efficiency.

• Anticipate Future Needs: Anticipate and address the future needs of the Facilities and Engineering organization and the site overall.

• Ability to positively influence peers and executive leadership team of a site

• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop large organizations with multiple layers of management.

• Broad perspective, problem solving, goal oriented, process oriented, innovation, influence and ability to research a problem and a solution.

• Experience in providing technical problem-solving skills involving sites and functions within a complex corporation

• Ability to collaborate with technical, scientific and management internal user groups.

• Interpersonal and facilitation skills vital to forge consensus among competing clients’ interests on critical and time-sensitive issues—important in ensuring that, within Amgen's collaborative culture, objectives are met on time and on budget.

• Must be onsite daily and willingness to work flexible hours as needed.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical Engineering, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline experience

Or

Master’s degree and 8 years of pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical Engineering, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical Engineering, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline experience

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

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