Upstream​/AME Manufacturing Manager, Nights

Career Category

Operations

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.

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will be responsible for leading a team in production operations on the manufacturing floor including cell culture operations in our flexible manufacturing facility as well as leadership of the Agile Manufacturing Excellence team for this shift, which will operate flexibly across all areas of both AR30 and AR5. This role will leverage continuous improvement, transformative approaches and innovation to drive reliability, efficiency, agility and differentiation.

The manager will champion a safe and compliant production environment through structured on floor presence. This position is for the night shift. The shift pattern will be 7PM‑7AM structure with a rotation covering 7 days per week.

• Create a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement
• Oversee right first time on the floor execution of the production plan
• Deliver strong business results
• Develop a high‑performing team, build technical and leadership capabilities within the organization to meet current and future business needs
• Ensure the right people and resources are in place and optimally allocated to achieve results
• Create an environment that fosters accountability, agility, innovation, continuous improvement, learning and knowledge‑sharing
• Ensure effective decision‑making
• Oversee manufacturing validation activities
• Responsible for overseeing new technology implementation in manufacturing
• Attract, develop and retain diverse talent
• Conduct short and long‑range talent planning to ensure readiness of talent to execute future organizational objectives
• Work across functions to build organization and individual capabilities
• Develop strong relationships with staff members, provide open and clear feedback to improve individual and team performance

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

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR
• Master’s degree and 3 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR
• Doctorate degree

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences or Engineering
• Knowledge and experience within a cGMP or other highly regulated environment including a basic understanding of technical elements across engineering, biological or chemical processing
• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities,…