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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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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.
Senior Engineer - Utilities & Systems/Automation Integration
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will support Facilities & Engineering (F&E) operations at Amgen Manufacturing Limited (AML) in Juncos, Puerto Rico. This role provides engineering expertise across utilities systems, process monitoring, and systems integration, supporting reliability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
The position supports Amgen priorities for continuous improvement through process verification, process understanding, and data‑enabled decision making. The role includes involvement in automation and digitalization activities, such as supporting data integration systems, process monitoring tools, and automation‑related issue resolution, in collaboration with automation teams. This position offers exposure to multiple utilities modalities, process designs, and unit operations in a highly collaborative environment.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Optimize Central Utilities automation systems by identifying recurring control, communication, and process performance issues; analyzing root causes with System Owners and automation teams; and implementing improvements that strengthen reliability, recovery, and operating performance.
Develop predictive monitoring and data models using process historian and equipment data to detect abnormal trends, anticipate failures, and identify opportunities to improve the performance of utilities systems such as chillers, boilers, pumps, and cooling towers.
Advance automation and digital innovation by supporting PLC/SCADA lifecycle activities, system upgrades, commissioning, and OT/IT integration with historians and dashboards, while ensuring solutions meet GMP, data integrity, and validation requirements.
Perform and/or contribute to automation troubleshooting, communication issues between different programs, in collaboration with utilities engineers and automation teams.
Identifying abnormal process performance to identify root cause, troubleshooting, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement corrections.
Support the development and implementation of digital tools and automation strategies in collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
Support or provide input to custom scripts, logic, or monitoring solutions developed by automation or digital teams.
Use data analytics software to review, assess, and improve process operation performance, data retrieval and reporting for utilities performance.
Integrate data from process historians into dashboards and advanced monitoring platforms in collaboration with automation and IT teams.
Apply statistical analysis in-order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements.
Provides data analysis and interpretation and assesses impact of the data.
Participates in department-wide support efforts such as safety and compliance.
Designs, monitors, or conduct…