Engineer - Drug Substance Technology & Engineering

Career Category Engineering 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-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! Do you want to help shape the future of biopharmaceutical manufacturing? Are you interested in working with a diverse product portfolio of life changing products in a dynamic working environment? Would you like to work with a highly motivated team of process science professionals to positively impact patients’ lives? Amgen discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics.

A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to realize the new science’s promise by bringing safe, effective medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. Advancing science and helping patients –these dual passions are ingrained in our culture. They drive our work, our values, and everything we do  staff around the world, our mission to serve patients and our commitment to science makes Amgen a place where we can make a positive difference in people’s lives while pursuing a challenging and fulfilling career.

To foster a setting in which all staff may excel, we support a variety of growth opportunities, from training and education to expanding current job responsibilities. Amgen is seeking an Engineer to join the Drug Substance Technology & Engineering (DSTE) team at our Thousand Oaks, California site. In this onsite role, you will provide downstream purification process engineering support for a diverse portfolio of both clinical and commercial biologics drug substance products across the network.

The Engineer will provide technology transfer, process validation, and manufacturing support for human therapeutic products (biological drug substance) in clinical development through commercial production. Our mission is to translate developmental processes to commercial reality for patients through scientific expertise and engineering innovation. You will work as a member of a team of engineers and scientists, as you use engineering principles to implement manufacturing processes in a cGMP environment.

The successful candidate will apply process engineering knowledge in support of technology transfer and clinical and commercial drug substance manufacturing at Amgen’s Thousand Oaks site.

• Transfer purification drug substance processes and process improvements from the laboratory to manufacturing facilities and between manufacturing sites.
• Provide solutions to technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering techniques and procedures under general supervision; seek assistance when addressing unusual problems.
• Support process…