Associate Engineer I
About The Position
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. ASSOCIATE ENGINEER I What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will provide process development support to manufacturing operations and could also perform mammalian cell culture and lab activities to support the commercial development of the Amgen’s pipeline.
Requirements
- High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Scientific experience OR
- Associate’s degree and 4 years of Scientific experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree
Nice To Haves
- 2 years of experience in a Biotech/Pharma Process Development and/or Manufacturing Support role for drug substance manufacturing.
- Understanding of cell culture processes, influence of raw material attributes, and impact of process deviations to growth and quality attributes. Harvest and clarification processes used for mammalian cell culture processes.
- Chemical engineering principles for the scale up of unit operations from bench scale to commercial scale.
- Able to apply engineering principles and statistical analysis, including design of experiments, in-order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements
- Chromatography, ultrafiltration and normal flow filtration operations experience a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Experience developing and managing team training workflows and strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to work under moderate direction.
- Able to analyze and interpret data
- Be a self-starter with the ability to take on several projects at one time.
Responsibilities
- Apply fundamental scientific principles to Biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes (upstream cell culture) in the development of process improvements, facility adaptations, and new process operations.
- Provide technical and on-the-floor support to assist in the troubleshooting of clinical and commercial drug substance manufacturing.
- Support the GMP manufacturing process evaluations and investigations.
- Develop novel mammalian cell culture and next generation technologies to increase yield, process robustness, and enable new unit operations.
Benefits
- A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models where possible.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
