Utilities Automation Engineer - Amgen
Job in
West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, 02817, USA
Listed on 2026-02-03
Listing for:
Scorpion Therapeutics
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-03
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Role Summary
Utilities Automation Engineer (Manufacturing Systems Engineer) at Amgen’s Rhode Island facility. Responsible for supporting complex and challenging utility automation initiatives, providing project leadership and daily operational support to the Automation Engineering team, and ensuring operational excellence across process control, automation infrastructure, and utility systems.
Responsibilities- Provides technical support to commercial manufacturing and utilities operations, specific to process control, automation infrastructure, and utility systems
- Works with manufacturing, process engineering, utility operations, maintenance, quality assurance, and validation to implement operational improvements and projects
- Leads and supports technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and fixes process control issues related to electrical, instrumentation and control systems supporting utility generation and distribution
- Provides technical support to troubleshoot and resolve equipment, automation, or process issues in the field
- Develop original code to support operational changes and optimizations on multiple utility PLC platforms
- Perform system owner responsibilities such as change control, maintenance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
- Devises new approaches to complex problems through adaptations and modifications of standard automation technical principles
- Develop, organize, analyze, and present results for operational issues and engineering projects of small scope and complexity
- Communicates with multiple levels within the organization, highlighting issues and proposing solutions
- Provides technical support and issue resolution 24x7 on-call support of Automation systems on a rotational basis
- Applies industry best practices to attain an innovative organization
- Required:
High school diploma / GED and 8 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR - Required:
Associate's degree and 6 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR - Required:
Bachelor's degree and 2 years of automation and/or engineering experience OR - Required:
Master's degree - Preferred:
Bachelor's Degree related technical field - Preferred: 3+ years' experience in Automation Engineering in a GMP manufacturing environment with at least 1+ year experience in the Life Sciences industries
- Preferred: 3+ years' combined experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs, Factory Talk applications
- Preferred:
Experience with Siemens Step-7/TIA Portal, WinCC, Siemens Desigo, iFix SCADA, OSI PI, Emerson DeltaV - Preferred:
Direct experience in a regulated environment (GMP, OSHA, EPA) with understanding of current good manufacturing practices - Preferred:
Familiarity with ISA-S88, 21 CFR Part 11, Validation, GAMP and software development life cycle methodologies - Preferred:
Experience with WFI generation/storage/distribution, clean steam generation, chillers/boilers, gas storage/distribution (e.g., oxygen), building automation - Preferred:
Experience with validation and change control methodology
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