Sr Instrument Technician

Sr Instrument Technician

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.

What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this role the Sr Instrument Technician provides repair and calibration services to support Utilities / Facilities assets and systems. Many of the systems are business critical to Site Operations and must be accurately maintained for compliance and assurance of supply.

Maintains equipment to ensure uninterrupted service to Amgen

Performs regular scheduled maintenance / calibration on instruments which support or monitor utility systems (ex. Environmental monitoring, Pressure, Gas detection, Scales, Process equipment, etc.)

Provides emergency / unscheduled repairs of equipment and plant systems

Assists with projects by collaborating with system engineers to design, specify, and commission new systems or upgrades

Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures

Applies engineering experience to ensure that instrumentation and controls systems used in assigned facilities are accurately specified, installed, programmed, and calibrated to perform design function

Performs periodic assessment of field device calibration frequencies, and addressing out of tolerance (OOT), accessing instrument performance for replacement / upgrade

Troubleshoots analog / digital hardware related problems on process control systems and instrumentation, including distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC's) and single loop analog controllers

Performs calibration procedures including training and qualifying calibration technicians

Effectively communicate, document, and schedule all work activities

Responsible for maintaining instrumentation and controls equipment in a validated environment including all GxP areas

Ensures that instrumentation and controls are of appropriate calibration designation and that red tagged and status coded instrumentation are addressed and repaired within allowable time constraints

Must succinctly communicate the status of job activities to management and applicable production support personnel

Other responsibilities and duties as assigned by Group Leader, Supervisor, or Senior Supervisor

Diagnose and resolve issues with automation systems and control equipment.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for production and maintenance teams.

Perform system upgrades and maintenance to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

High school diploma / GED and 2 years of Facilities experience

OR

Associate degree and six months of Facilities experience

OR

Bachelors

Preferred Qualifications:

Associate's degree in electronics technology

Knowledge of validated systems, applicable engineering standards and an ability to work with facility specific software applications is essential to the job function

Must manage activities to meet restrictive timelines

Must have strong interpersonal skills including excellent written and…