Sr. Automation Engineer - (Building Automation Systems)

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.

Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer- BAS and Warehouse Systems

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Sr Automation Engineer for the new Amgen Advanced Assembly and Final Product Operation facility will be part of the Facilities & Engineering team responsible for providing maintenance leadership and technical expertise in support of safe and reliable facility infrastructure, facility equipment/systems, utility systems, and/or production suites, ensures systems operate within designed parameters within GMP assembly, packaging and warehouse operations. The area of responsibility may consist of multiple facilities, subject areas, or clients. All work to be completed to assure minimal impact to production while staying in sync with all cGMP guidelines and Amgen procedures.

Responsibilities

Strictly follow the company’s safety and cGMP policies and procedures.

• Determining Automation Systems specifications.
• Coordinating and leading contractors performing maintenance activities on managed systems
• Maximo (CMMS) System Owner for Automation Locations and Assets
• Ensure preventive maintenance related to Automation Systems is in place using reliability engineering principles.
• Develop and maintain building control automation and automated warehouse systems applying Siemens and Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA).
• Support functional area projects focused on improving process equipment/utilities/facilities - to- sophisticated unit operation skids to integrate new drug product manufacturing technologies into clinical/commercial facility.
• Lead/support technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and solving problems related to process control issues within plant operations.
• Provide Continuous Improvement initiatives including Safety, Reliability, Efficiency and Environmental sustainability improvements to meet Amgen’s goals
• Maintain Data Integrity Assessments with the current Amgen and Industry standards
• Collaborate with Amgen Plant network to improve the automation design for the site.

Day-to-day Operational Support including:

• 24 x 7 Onsite/On Call: Day to Day Operational Support

• Trouble shooting Support to Site Operations

• Building and Warehouse Automation System Administration

• Automation System Operating Systems (OS) assessments and rollout

• Daily engineering work center team meetings

• Preventative and corrective maintenance

• Automation System spare parts management

• Drive true root cause investigations and resolutions by collaborating with equipment Vendors.
• Business Process Improvements including departmental Standard Operating Procedures
• (SOP) and Job plans for the area of responsibility to assure all maintenance operations are performed safely and reliably
• Provide subject matter expertise for automation-related expansion and or capital projects

What we expect of you

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

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech or related technical subject area experience and 2 years of Automation experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech or related technical subject area experience and 4 years of Automation experience

Or

Associate’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech or related technical subject area experience and 8 years of Automation experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Automation experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotech or related technical subject area experience

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