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Company:

Amgen

Job Code:

Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical

Job Description:

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You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Process Development Engineer

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world!

Part of Amgen’s Process Development (PD) organization, Drug Product Technologies (DPT) is seeking a highly motivated Engineer to provide process development support to Amgen’s parenteral biologics fill-finish manufacturing plant in Thousand Oaks, CA. The candidate will play a key role in bringing a wide variety of high-quality clinical and licensed drug products to patients through demonstrated excellence in technology transfer, product and process characterization, process validation and continuous process verification. A focus on visual inspection compliance and process optimization is a major expectation within this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Engage in the new product introduction (NPI) and ongoing manufacturing activities to enable and optimize our manual visual inspection (MVI) processes for an expanding product portfolio, including make-a-batch exercises, technical assessments, and designing and performing hands-on inspectability studies with inspectors.

Support the establishment of robust tactical and strategic objectives related to visual inspection, with emphases on the evolving state of regulatory expectations and alignment within the Amgen global network.

Provide PD expertise for drug product visual inspection triages and investigations, including but not limited to defect identification, maintenance of defect libraries, defect rate excursions, and forensics investigation of unknown defects.

Support the introduction of automated visual inspection (AVI) technology into the plant.

Generate, maintain, and optimize defect kits for training MVI operators, performing MVI studies, and developing AVI recipes.

Author, review, and data verify technical documents for all the above responsibilities per good documentation practices.

Provide subject matter expert guidance to regulatory submissions, responses to agency questions, and technology transfers to other Amgen plants.

Participate in knowledge management and dissemination activities to bolster MVI and AVI knowledge across the enterprise.

Position Title:

Process Development Engineer - Thousand Oaks, CA

Job Category:

Engineering

Minimum Education Required:

High School/GED

City*:

Thousand Oaks

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities:

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Engineering experience OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Engineering experience OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Engineering experience OR

Master’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, life sciences, or related field.

Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, including knowledge of Quality systems and current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations.

Professional experience that includes elements of visual inspection within a manufacturing process.

The ability to learn and act upon dynamic information at a rapid pace in a multi-functional team environment.

Proficiency in technical problem solving, critical thinking, and the delivery of value-adding solutions with limited oversight and technical direction.

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

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.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:

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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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Salary Range

87,963.00 USD - 110,671.00 USD

State*:

California