Senior Director Engineering

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The Senior Director, Engineering Technical Authority, provides enterprise technical leadership for Amgen’s Drug Substance engineering network, with additional accountability for Single-Use strategy and selected infrastructure support through the Engineering Technical Lead organization. This is a global role with primary focus on the global Drug Substance network.

This leader is responsible for setting technical directions, deploying engineering capability, and ensuring consistent support across capital projects, lifecycle asset management, and global network initiatives. The role connects long-range technical strategy with project execution and site support, ensuring that engineering decisions are scalable, compliant, and aligned across the network.

The position is also the primary Engineering Technical Authority interface for front-end planning and participates in the front-end planning core team to help shape project strategy, technical approach, and engineering engagement for future investments. A Key element of this role will be to drive the Evolution of the ETA organization to develop new capabilities to address the changing technical landscape and to act as leader and change agent amongst their peers in the ETA and other organizations in Global Engineering as we grow and evolve our team.

This role has leadership responsibility for the engineering organization supporting:

• Drug Substance subject matter experts, project engineering, and network technical support
• Single-Use network leadership, Single-Use system design, and Single-Use support for capital projects in Drug Substance and Drug Product
• Engineering Technical Leads supporting capital projects across the global manufacturing network, serving as technical leads for Drug Substance, infrastructure, and other selected engineering scopes
• Engineering global network coordination and technical alignment

This position has multiple direct reports and provides oversight to a broader engineering organization that includes engineering leaders, subject matter experts, project engineers, and Engineering Technical Leads supporting capital projects and network priorities.

The ideal candidate is a senior engineering leader with deep technical credibility in biologics manufacturing, strong capital project experience, and the ability to lead through organizational complexity. This person must be comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels, influencing senior stakeholders, and building strong technical organizations that support global networks and competing priorities.

Provide enterprise technical leadership for Drug Substance systems, Single-Use systems, and assigned infrastructure-related scopes. Lead the organization responsible for delivering technical direction, aligned engineering support, and consistent standards across the global manufacturing network. This includes:

• Setting…