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 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.
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Senior Manager of Engineering is responsible for providing technical and engineering leadership for the design, development, implementation, qualification, and lifecycle management of pharmaceutical device assembly, labeling, and secondary and tertiary packaging process equipment.
This role requires deep technical expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging technologies , combined with demonstrated industry experience delivering complex automation and equipment projects in a highly regulated environment.
The Senior Manager will lead high-visibility, cross-functional engineering initiatives from early concept and technology selection through design, equipment development, integration, qualification, operational readiness, and sustained manufacturing support. The successful candidate will work closely with Manufacturing/Operations, Quality, Automation, Validation, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Process Development, Regulatory, and external equipment suppliers to deliver robust, reliable, compliant, and scalable manufacturing solutions.
The position requires a leader who can operate effectively at both the technical detail and strategic program level , challenge equipment designs and technical decisions, manage complex project risks, influence stakeholders, and drive issues to resolution.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering & Technical Leadership
Provide technical leadership for device assembly, labeling, secondary packaging, and tertiary packaging equipment and automation systems .
Lead the assessment, selection, design, development, implementation, and lifecycle management of process technologies and equipment.
Develop equipment and automation strategies that support manufacturing reliability, product quality, operational efficiency, flexibility, and long-term technology standardization.
Provide technical direction through equipment concept development, design reviews, detailed engineering, equipment build, testing, installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational ramp-up.
Critically review equipment architecture, automation concepts, control strategies, material flow, product handling, inspection systems, and machine interfaces.
Apply strong engineering fundamentals and industry knowledge to identify technical risks early and develop effective mitigation strategies.
Drive technical problem solving and structured root-cause analysis for complex equipment, automation, process, and reliability issues.
Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices for equipment design, technology selection, maintainability, reliability, and lifecycle management.
Equipment & Technology Expertise
The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience with technologies associated with pharmaceutical…