Associate Manufacturing AME - Days

Career Category

Operations

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.

Associate Manufacturing - Days

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will perform operations within multiple Manufacturing areas, including cell culture and purification, at Amgen's innovative Rhode Island facility. This agile approach helps align staff capability with labor demand peaks across areas while building broader manufacturing experience. You will be required to know, comprehend, and apply Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and to understand, follow, and document work in batch records.

Responsibilities Include:

• Perform cell culture, purification, weigh & dispense, and solutions batching tasks as part of an Agile Manufacturing Excellence team in two drug substance plants
• Perform tasks in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Manufacturing Procedures (MPs), Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs), and applicable Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs)
• Perform and monitor critical manufacturing processes
• Conduct basic troubleshooting and assist in the review of documentation for assigned functions.
• May also have the responsibility of initiating and owning area deviations
• Assist in the review of documentation for assigned functions, including routine area audits and batch records
• Perform activities that may include rigorous and repetitive work
• Work around high-pressure systems and occasionally around heavy equipment
• Train staff on hands-on tasks, as needed
• Serve as a safety representative, as needed
• Provide operational feedback and escalate issues observed
• Identify, recommend, and implement improvements related to routine functions
• Ability to work with different teams in an ever-changing, fast-paced environment
• Ability to maintain training and proficiency in supplemental assigned areas
• Enthusiasm for learning the different manufacturing areas and technologies at ARI

In this role, you will be expected to work a 12-hour shift (7AM-7PM) on a rotating schedule. This includes extra benefits such as built in overtime and getting premium pay for any Sundays worked. The schedule during the initial onboarding/training phase (2-6 weeks) will be administrative (Monday through Friday, approximately 8am to 5pm).

Agile Workforce and Cross-Area Support

Support an agile manufacturing workforce by developing broader capabilities across assigned manufacturing areas and applying those skills where product demand, labor needs, and business priorities require. Based on training, qualifications, and operational needs, move between areas to help address periods of peak demand and maintain effective production support across AR5 and AR30 manufacturing areas.

Work collaboratively with area teams and Front-Line Managers (FLMs) to align assignments with campaign needs and defined work durations. Follow applicable training, qualification, GMP, and safety requirements when supporting work outside the primary area. Use cross-area experience to contribute to problem solving, build technical depth, and support continuous improvement.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• High school/GED + 2 years of manufacturing or operations work experience OR
• Associate’s + 6 months of manufacturing or operations work experience OR
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering
• Knowledge of large-scale biotechnology operations such as purification, cell culture, aseptic processing, etc.
• Demonstrated foundational technical knowledge or transferable experience applicable to manufacturing, engineering, or operational environments.

• Strong learning orientation with the ability to quickly develop technical proficiency in assigned areas.

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