Manager Manufacturing Solution Prep - Nights

Amgen • West Greenwich, RI

10d • $106,148 - $143,612 • Onsite

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.

Requirements

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR Master’s degree and 3 years of Manufacturing and Operations experience OR Doctorate degree
• Experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.
• Managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Nice To Haves

• Background in Life Sciences or Engineering
• Knowledge and experience within a cGMP or other highly regulated environment including a basic understanding of technical elements across engineering, biological or chemical processing
• Skilled in change management, team building, and fostering innovation
• Excellent communication skills, drive, sense of urgency, and analytical problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated experience in applying Operational Excellence and Lean Manufacturing
• Experience with performance management including coaching, conflict resolution and performance reviews
• Ability to be flexible and manage change
• Demonstrated ability to forge and maintain strong relationships with other functional areas
• User-level fluency with digital tools for daily management, data analysis and visualization, and application of Artificial Intelligence (e.g, Copilot, Chat GPT, etc)

Responsibilities

• Champion a safe and compliant production environment through structured on-the-floor presence.
• Champion problem solving and continuous improvement among the team and in collaboration with cross-functional partners in Quality, EHSS, F&E, and Process Development.
• Be an active player in our OnePlant operating model, building reliability, agility, and efficiency through our I-530 pathway and Agile Workforce.
• Collaborate routinely with Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Engineering, Facilities and Engineering, Maintenance, Process Development, Process Engineering, Supply Chain, Regulatory Compliance, and other site functions.
• Provide strong technical ownership of manufacturing operations, disciplined execution of cGMP and safety expectations, and the ability to make timely decisions in a dynamic production environment.
• Lead on-the-floor operations and staff in manufacturing.
• Supervise, coach, hire, onboard, and develop manufacturing staff while ensuring that team members are trained, capable, engaged, and prepared to meet production requirements.
• Help define area objectives, identify improvement opportunities, lead change efforts, and deliver against short- and long-term AR5 manufacturing goals.
• Strengthen reliability, improve operational efficiency, enable agility for future business needs, and support AR5’s commitment to being the best place for talent.
• Own and reinforce the strong safety and quality culture within the shift and ensure standards are upheld through active engagement and coaching.
• Lead the shift and collaborate with peer managers to reliably deliver production targets.
• Coordinate daily task allocation and plan ahead with the scheduling team for short- to mid-term schedule needs.
• Provide Purposeful Presence on the Floor (Gemba) to monitor overall department performance, provide coaching, and ensure consistency with our core Floor Operating Principles.
• Coordinate with support functions to troubleshoot, identify and resolve issues as needed while on shift.
• Mentor and develop talent, fostering an environment of engagement, belonging, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Build a high-performing team, ensuring accountability and advancing technical and leadership capabilities.
• Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to support higher efficiency and eliminate non-value-added activities.
• Role model ARI Manufacturing’s Agile Workforce behaviors by planning and executing cross-training and dynamic resource allocation across AR5 and AR30 that enhances responsiveness and productivity while increasing opportunities for staff development.
• Assist in developing and implementing departmental strategy and plans aligned with broader AR5, ARI, and site manufacturing objectives.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear daily, weekly, and shift-level execution plans.
• Anticipate operational, quality, safety, training, and schedule risks and build contingencies to reduce impact.
• Deliver strong business results through continuous improvement, standardization, and disciplined execution.
• Use metrics, audit outcomes, process data, and staff feedback to identify trends and improve performance.
• Lead change efforts that improve safety, compliance, quality, efficiency, throughput, and reliability.
• Ensure the team understands how daily execution connects to Amgen’s mission, patient impact, and AR5 business priorities.
• Be responsible for selection, onboarding, training, evaluation, staff relations, performance management, and development of manufacturing staff.
• Ensure the right people, skills, and resources are in place and optimally allocated to achieve production, quality, and business goals.
• Interact with management to optimize organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, and shift performance.
• Build and develop a diverse, impactful team that can reliably execute complex manufacturing operations.
• Work across functions to build organizational and individual capability.
• Develop strong relationships with staff members and provide open, clear, and actionable feedback.
• Foster a team environment that supports accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, learning, knowledge-sharing, and psychological safety.
• Promote clear communication across shifts to ensure continuity, alignment, and readiness.
• Lead with a people-centered approach that supports engagement, retention, empowerment, and development.

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, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed