Associate Quality Control
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 Quality Control What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will execute and review analytical testing in our cGMP laboratory. The role will be based out of Amgen Rhode Island and will work under the mentorship of the hiring manager. It is an administrative shift, Monday through Friday. The Raw Material Centralized Testing team provides analytical expertise in testing raw materials to meet Amgen specifications and ensure a constant supply of raw materials for Amgen products. The laboratory employs a variety of test methodologies that utilizes sophisticated equipment including HPLC, GC and ICPMS. The team provides these crucial services for the entire Amgen production network, to ensure only the highest quality raw materials are used to build products for our patients.
Requirements
- High school diploma / GED and 2 years of Quality or Operations experience OR Associate’s degree and 6 months of Quality or Operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree
Nice To Haves
- Professional work experience in a fast-paced, flexible GxP laboratory
- Demonstrated experience with various laboratory practices
- Self-motivated, strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time with supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills (both written and oral), facilitation and presentation skills
- Demonstrate ability to be flexible and adaptable
- Knowledge of pharmacopeial testing, USP (United States Pharmacopeia) and PhEUR (European Pharmacopeia).
- Experience with benchtop wet chemistry (color change/precipitation reactions, titrations etc.) or HPLC/GC (high-performance liquid chromatography/gas chromatography) experience
Responsibilities
- Follow safety guidelines, cGMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) and other applicable regulatory requirements
- Generate complete, accurate, and concise laboratory documentation using electronic systems and laboratory notebooks
- Ensures that facilities, equipment, materials, organization, processes, procedures and products follow cGMP practices and other applicable regulations
- Operate laboratory equipment and instrumentation
- Performs review and approval of assays, documents and records
- Supports Continual Improvement initiatives
- Alerts management of quality, compliance, supply and safety risks
- Participate in laboratory investigations
- Perform general laboratory housekeeping activities
- Completes required assigned training to permit carry through of required tasks
- Performs additional duties as specified by management
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
Education Level
High school or GED
