Career Category

Engineering

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.

Engineering Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role, the Manager of Engineering is responsible for maintenance support assignments at Amgen’s manufacturing site in Ohio. The position is a key role in the Engineering group and the candidate must manage and/or apply extensive technical expertise in the coordination of multiple, sophisticated, non-routine maintenance tasks of systems.

Engineering & Maintenance Management

• Key responsibilities will include providing engineering and maintenance services and support to pharmaceutical packaging lines. 

• Lead a team of experienced maintenance and engineering personnel across Amgen commercial operations for product assembly, label, and packaging. 

• The position is expected to bring to bear this team to support equipment maintenance, trouble shooting, triages, and process improvements. 

• Ensure on-the-floor support of engineering and maintenance to reduce production downtime. Provide leadership and technical expertise for maintenance strategy for equipment and systems. 

• Recommend and support improving maintenance instructions, including but not limited to Job Plans, Spare Parts Lists and PMs. 

• Own selected maintenance SOPs and recommend and implement improvements. Recommend and implement improvements to the timing and coordination of maintenance activities. Provide field support to identify and resolve equipment and maintenance-related issues. 

• Provide support to improve safety, compliance, efficiency, and effective execution of maintenance work orders. 

• Evaluate equipment and instrumentation maintenance and failure history and recommend and implement improvements. 

• Manage selected maintenance contract service providers. 

• The Engineering Manager is tasked with facilitating effective communication across the Amgen commercial site network by utilizing all collaborators and delivering on technical improvements. 

• Site communication will occur during daily Tier meetings, escalation processes, and vendor coordination, among other methods, to engage all team members and achieve technical advancements in communication, etc. 

• This position requires the application of diverse and advanced engineering and scientific principles in support of commercial GMP Final Drug Product (FDP) operations in the Amgen Ohio manufacturing facility. 

The Engineering Manager position works with the Senior Manager of Engineering at the Amgen Ohio facility.

The position is expected to travel approximately 15%.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering or related discipline & 3 years of related experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline & 5 years of related experience 

• Associate degree in Engineering or related discipline & 10 years of related experience 

• High school diploma / GED & 12 years of related experience 

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Educational background in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related technical degree 

• Experience repairing mechanical equipment in a manufacturing environment (experience with packaging equipment preferred) 

• Strong mechanical proficiency and trouble shooting skills 

• Understanding in PLC, Computer Serialization, Packaging Equipment, Vision Inspection System (Cognex Vision System and Systech Serialization) 

• Excellent organizational, project management, problem solving and technical writing capability 

• Strong communication: verbal / written, collaboration, influencing and facilitation 

• MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point 

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.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans

• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

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Sponsorship

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Salary Range

125,062.20USD -169,201.80 USD