Associate Engineer

Career Category Operations 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, 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.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Associate Engineer reports to the Senior Manager of the Engineering group. The position is responsible for providing daily process, equipment, maintenance, and reliability engineering support at the Amgen Rhode Island site.

• Apply engineering principles to support the operation, maintenance, and improvement of process systems used in commercial and clinical manufacturing.
• Provide technical and field support to troubleshoot process equipment and control issues, identify causes of poor performance, and implement solutions.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Process Development, Utility Operations, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, and Validation to resolve issues and implement operational improvements.
• Organize and analyze data, then present results and recommendations for operational issues, maintenance activities, and engineering projects.
• Support the design, construction, startup, commissioning, and qualification of new or modified systems, completing assigned work under the direction of lead engineers and within schedule and budget constraints.
• Improve equipment and maintenance information in Maximo, including equipment records, job plans, spare parts, safety information, and preventive maintenance schedules.
• Support maintenance planning and execution, and advance condition‑based and predictive maintenance practices using data analytics where applicable.
• Investigate abnormal conditions through Deviation and INCA processes, with guidance appropriate to the scope and complexity of the issue.
• Work with engineers and technicians on ongoing operations and projects.
• Communicate progress, issues, and proposed solutions to supervisors and support teams.
• Participate in a rotating 24/7 on‑call schedule to support process systems, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

The onboarding phase for this role will last approximately 2–6 weeks, during which time successful incumbents will become familiar with site operations, engineering systems, quality processes, safety expectations, and cross‑functional ways of working. This is a days‑based role, generally aligned to an administrative schedule, with flexibility required to support business needs, critical operations, shutdowns, investigations, or occasional off‑hours issues as necessary.

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

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