Manager QA - Nights

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnesses drives all that we do.

Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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, youll 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, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will hire, train, develop, and manage Quality Assurance professionals to successfully deliver on role to support GMP Manufacturing and to manage change in an effective, efficient and compliant manner.

This individual will be responsible for overseeing our Night shift Quality Assurance teams, and the schedule will be M-F 6pm - 2:30am.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Independently determine approach to managing daily operations; guided by general policies and management guidance

• Develop or contribute to the development of procedures and standards by which others will operate.

• Interpret and execute standards and procedures directly affecting work activities

• Develops and communicates goals and objectives to staff and key partners

• Monitor goal performance and coordinate action for improvement of shift and overall PQA performance by championing department OPEX efforts. Assist project teams in establishing priorities, project timelines and in securing resources.

• Actively represent Quality Assurance on incident triage teams or support efforts by providing guidance and/or technical leadership

• Partner with internal personnel at various management levels to resolve issues, establish direction, obtain resources, and drive change

• Reviewing and approving operational procedures and product manufacturing procedures, approving process validation protocols and reports for manufacturing processes, and approving environmental characterization reports and change control documents.

• Approving non-conformances, representing QA on project teams and approving change-over completion controls.

• Leading investigations, as well as leading plant and site audits.

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

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Quality or Manufacturing experience OR

• Associates degree and 10 years of Quality or Manufacturing experience OR

• Bachelors degree or and 5 years of Quality or Manufacturing experience OR

• Masters degree and 3 years of Quality or Manufacturing 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

• Bachelors Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering or related field

• 6+ years of quality assurance or combination of quality and manufacturing experience in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry

• 2+ years of supervisory/management experience

• Experience in areas of manufacturing, investigations, CAPA, product release, validation and/or change control

• Experience in regulations, standards and guidelines that apply to biotech manufacturing in a multi-product environment

• Ability to develop meaningful team and staff goals, manage performance and coach and develop staff

• Ability to manage to established timelines and deliver results to meet or exceed department and company goals and objectives.

• Thorough knowledge of monoclonal antibody manufacturing or ability to apply previous biotech manufacturing knowledge to…