Lab Design Project Engineer

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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.

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** Lab Design Project Engineer*
* ** What you will do*
* Let's do this. Let's change the world. The Laboratory Design Project Engineer provides technical leadership and subject matter expertise for the planning, design, renovation, and delivery of laboratory facilities. This role ensures laboratory environments are safe, compliant, functional, flexible, and aligned with scientific, operational, and business requirements. The Lab Design Project Engineer partners with researchers, engineers, architects, project managers, facilities teams, EHS professionals, equipment manufacturers, external design firms and global insurance partners throughout the project lifecycle.

This position requires travel to project sites and organizational locations to support project development, design reviews, field assessments, construction activities, commissioning, and stakeholder engagement.

** Key Responsibilities*
* + Serve as the technical lead for laboratory planning, design standards, workflows, and facility requirements.

+ Translate scientific and operational needs into laboratory design criteria, space programs, equipment requirements, and functional layouts.

+ Lead or support the development and maintenance of laboratory design standards, specifications, guidelines, and standard details.

+ Review laboratory design packages-including concepts, layouts, drawings, specifications, and equipment plans-for functionality, safety, constructability, and compliance.

+ Ensure designs address laboratory ventilation, containment, biosafety, chemical safety, ergonomics, utilities, waste handling, material flow, security, and emergency response needs.

+ Collaborate with users and stakeholders to define current and future laboratory capacity, flexibility, adjacencies, and workflow requirements.

+ Lead technical aspects of capital projects from early feasibility and programming through design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and occupancy.

+ Travel as needed to support site assessments, project meetings, design workshops, construction reviews, commissioning, and operational-readiness activities.

+ Coordinate with Engineering, EHS, Facilities, Quality, Operations, external consultants, FM Insurance, and construction teams to resolve technical issues and manage design decisions.

+ Evaluate laboratory equipment requirements and integration needs, including utilities, controls, automation, and supporting infrastructure.

+ Identify design risks, recommend practical mitigations, and support risk assessments associated with laboratory operations and facility modifications.

+ Support commissioning and turnover activities to confirm…