Associate Mfg Systems Engineer- shift

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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Associate Mfg Systems Engineer for the new Amgen Advanced Assembly and Final Product Operation facility will be part of the Facilities & Engineering team responsible for providing automation and technical support for the safe and reliable operation of our advanced automated warehouse and automated guided vehicle systems (Automated storage and retrieval System - ASRS).

You will have the exciting opportunity to support performing advanced installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, testing, and documentation/logs of our advanced warehouse automation systems that require strong analytical problem-solving techniques.

Specific Responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Strictly follow the company’s safety and cGMP policies and procedures.
• Provide operational shift support for process control applications applying Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) and vision systems.
• Apply engineering principles of process automation to provide technical support to the automated warehouse, automated guided vehicles, and manufacturing production.
• Implement control system troubleshooting support for the ASRS integrated system.
• Implement automated process changes to improved equipment performance or upgraded equipment technologies.
• Participate in technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and troubleshooting on automation control issues related to electrical, instrumentation, and control systems.
• Perform required work in a GMP regulated manufacturing setting.
• Implement Preventative and Corrective maintenance.
• Ensure strict adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and maintain accurate GMP documentation following ALCOA+ principles.
• Support project management efforts for automation-related projects.
• Handle Automation Systems lifecycle including controlled changes, software versioning, and control system qualification.
• Ensure all changes are properly documented and approved.
• Support Data Integrity Assessments.
• Maintain automated warehouse systems applying Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA).
• Support Continuous Improvement initiatives including Safety, Reliability, Efficiency and Environmental sustainability improvements to meet Amgen’s goals.
• 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…