Director Engineering

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. Director Engineering What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role as a member of the AOH Engineering leadership team, the director will provide leadership, strategy, and tactical direction for the engineering and maintenance teams supporting the assembly and packaging lines in AOH 24/7 operation. This position reports directly to the Executive Director F&E and will manage a dynamic team whose responsibilities include engineering and maintenance. Key responsibilities include: Ensure safety of all personnel during plant operations and engineering activities Ensure that all staff are adequately trained and comply with all GMP standards and procedures Maximize staff productivity and the efficient use of available resources Maintain and improve plant capability and equipment reliability in partnership with plant leadership and other technical staff Leverage resources to support ongoing department capital project investment Identify areas of potential improvement, conduct analyses, recommend solutions, sponsor improvement projects, and implement as required Maintain and develop key performance indicators, supervise, assess, and develop staff, and ensure that all targets and milestones are completed on time and on budget Interface with a diverse Amgen internal network including AOH clients (plant and area directors and front-line managers), Facilities & Engineering leadership (Engineering and Automation), Engineering Technical Authority, Technology, Global Capital Project Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and Process Development Specific responsibilities include: Oversee a safe and compliant workforce working with a highly utilized commercial operations site Provide day-to-day, small project, and plant shut-down support Work with a diverse group of clients, technologies, and integrated systems in product development all in a GMP and highly regulated setting Manage partners and drive new business processes to ensure continuous and sustained improvements Ensure readiness and compliance for internal audits, external agency audits, and partner visits Present engineering plans, progress, and status updates to project stakeholders Review and approve proposed engineering designs, and equipment improvements and changes Perform administrative and oversight functions in approving proposals and expenditures Participate in the development of department  expenditure requests and partner with the projects teams to define the best engineering solution inclusive of long-term equipment performance Deliver effective troubleshooting and timely response to reduce downtime Drive robust equipment reliability What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The engineering professional we seek is a leader and