Principal Engineer - (Electrical)

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.

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for patients. The Principal Electrical Engineer will serve as the site’s senior electrical engineering technical authority at Amgen Ohio, supporting a high-speed, 24/7 final drug product packaging operation.

This role provides electrical engineering leadership across the site’s medium- and low-voltage distribution systems, emergency power infrastructure, power quality, reliability programs, facility modifications, and capital projects. The successful candidate will partner closely with Operations, Facilities & Engineering, Quality, EH&S, Automation, Maintenance, and external service providers to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable operation of critical electrical systems.

What you will do

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

In this vital role, you will support the Facilities & Engineering operations team at Amgen Ohio (AOH), a state-of-the-art final drug product manufacturing facility. You will be responsible for the safe, reliable, compliant, and efficient operation of site utility, facility, and infrastructure electrical systems that support commercial manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for site electrical infrastructure, including medium-voltage distribution, substations, switchgear, transformers, generators, ATS/paralleling systems, UPS systems, and low-voltage distribution.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for electrical reliability, power quality, emergency power, system protection, and electrical safety.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause investigations involving electrical failures, voltage disturbances, protection-system operation, generator and transfer system events, and facility outages.
• Develop and maintain electrical system standards, operating procedures, failure-mode analyses, preventive maintenance strategies, and critical-spares recommendations.
• Support the planning, design, execution, commissioning, and turnover of capital projects, facility improvements, equipment installations, and expansion activities.
• Review electrical designs, specifications, studies, and contractor work to ensure compliance with applicable codes, Amgen standards, GMP expectations, and site reliability requirements.
• Lead or support arc-flash, coordination, short-circuit, load-flow, harmonics, and power-quality studies, translating results into practical site improvements.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance teams to improve equipment reliability, reduce operational risk, and minimize manufacturing downtime.
• Provide technical oversight of electrical contractors, engineering firms, equipment vendors, and service providers.
• Support electrical safety programs, including NFPA 70E compliance, energized-work practices, lockout/tagout considerations, and incident prevention.
• Participate in site shutdown planning, outage coordination, emergency-response planning, and return-to-service activities.
• Mentor engineers and technical staff while strengthening electrical engineering capability across the site.
• Communicate technical risks, reliability priorities, project status, and investment needs clearly to site leadership.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a collaborative leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of engineering experience; or
• Master’s degree and 4 years of engineering experience; or
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of engineering experience; or
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of engineering experience; or
• High school diploma/GED and 12 years of engineering experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required; Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.

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