Principal Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Location: West Greenwich

Career Category

Information Systems

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.

Principal Manufacturing Technology and Information Systems Engineer

What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role, you will drive overall program success by applying program and project management principles to teams, partnering with business and technology leaders to ensure comprehensive alignment, and finding optimized ways to deliver efficiency and quality for our partners.

We are seeking a Principal Manufacturing Systems Engineer with solid leadership skills in any of Amgen Manufacturing locations in the US or Europe to join our Ops Technology Manufacturing & Engineering team to help drive productivity through the company using technology to unlock opportunities to stop, optimize processes and then automate as appropriate. Are you someone that has extensive experience on the Operations technology (Aveva Pi, Delta

V, Rockwell, MES) and Program Management to take progressive project management approaches. Are you eager to take your program management, continuous improvement & SAFE-Agile, financial management skills and use them in creative new ways to build groundbreaking Operation smart technologies that helps develop life-changing biotech medicines?, If so, this may be the right place for you.

Responsibilities:

* Lead large capital project and product teams by fostering Agile delivery while operating within GMP manufacturing environments.

* Partner with site and global stakeholders to prioritize demand, manage backlogs, and balance local needs with global strategy.

* Accountable for financials, resource planning, vendor performance, and delivery against scope, schedule, and quality targets.

* Drive global standards, templates, and best practices for large operations technology project and product design, deployment, lifecycle management, and support to enable scalability and operational excellence.

* Ensure solution delivery meets GMP compliance, data integrity, electronic batch records, and regulatory inspection readiness requirements.

* Lead cross-functional collaboration between site and corporate Operations, Quality, IT, OT, Automation, Platform Owners, and external system integrators.

* Own the global operations technology roadmap, including upgrades, standardization, harmonization, and site deployments, aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

* Mentor and coach junior project managers or Scrum Masters.

* Present status updates and progress to senior leadership at various governance meetings.

A day in a life:

* You are leading from the front, engaging with business functions across the company to help deliver core manufacturing systems.

* Partnering with strategy groups at Amgen and business partners to deliver initiatives.

* Lead a team of PMs, Platform SMEs, and communication resources to ensure structure in how the program operates.

* Drive financial compliance and adherence across the program through the various projects.

* Own the overall program roadmap and communicate program status and milestones to executive leadership.

* Ensure product teams operate in the spirit of Agile and have backlogs that are being managed optimally.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Manufacturing automation/Information systems leadership experience

OR

Master's degree and 4 years of Manufacturing automation/Information systems leadership experience

OR

Bachelor's degree and 6 years of Manufacturing automation/Information systems leadership experience

OR

Associate's degree and 10 years of Manufacturing automation/Information systems leadership experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Manufacturing automation/Information systems leadership experience

Preferred…