Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

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.

Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be part of Amgen's newest and most sophisticated final product assembly and packaging plant. The Final Product facility will not only feature the best in-class device assembly and packaging technologies with embedded industry 4.0 capabilities, but it will also integrate sustainability innovations to reduce carbon and waste, as part of Amgen's plan to be a carbon-neutral company by 2027.

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Amgen, you will support the analysis, design, and implementation of automation and information systems solutions to meet business requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and document system requirements, perform system testing, troubleshoot issues, and provide end-user support. Your attention to detail, analytical skills, and strong technical acumen will contribute to the successful delivery of IT projects and the continuous improvement of business processes.

Responsibilities:

• Technical support during Capital Projects implementation including documentation review, approval, technical advice, troubleshooting.

• Willing to travel to other Amgen sites to support Capital Projects (50%) including temporary short-term relocations.

• Own the ongoing creation and roadmap for key manufacturing systems

• Collaborate with business partners and other technology professionals to develop, deploy, and maintain the latest, advanced technologies in support of product manufacturing optimization

• Collaborate with the rest of the manufacturing network to incorporate lessons learned and share ongoing best practices

• Manage and/or support the execution of a varied portfolio of IS projects with appropriate portfolio planning, resource and risk management and financial management for the portfolio.

• Work closely with the delivery and platform teams to ensure that the applications are aligned with standard city planning approved architectural and development guidelines

• Lead selected efforts to design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) automated solutions and services. Quickly and iteratively prove or disprove the concepts being considered.

• Collaborate with business partners to understand how automation can improve workflow and productivity.

• Synthesize requirements from end-users, application architects, and cybersecurity experts to develop the best automation solutions.

• Technical support to manufacturing operations

• Work closely with other business and IS Process Engineers to find opportunities to stop inefficient practices, simplify business processes, and codify into automated solutions and platforms

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will have these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree
OR
Master’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environmen
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environmen
OR
Associate’s degree and 8 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environmen
OR
High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environment

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environment

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems job experience in a GMP environment

Or

High school diploma /