Manager Manufacturing

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

8h • 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-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. Manager Manufacturing What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Amgen Thousand Oaks, building 20 Drug Product Manufacturing facility directly supports Amgen’s pipeline of clinical and commercial drug product supply to patients across the globe. The Manager Manufacturing – Drug Product Inspection role offers the opportunity to collaborate with multiple functions within the Thousand Oaks site (Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Engineering, Facilities, Maintenance, Process Development, Process Engineering, Regulatory Compliance, etc.) on a routine basis in a dynamic environment while developing a deep understanding of the manufacturing operations and planning activities within the facility. The Manager Manufacturing is responsible for developing a team of expert manufacturing associates and visual inspectors within Drug Product operations, while championing a safe and compliant production environment through structured on-floor presence. In this position, the manager will ensure production areas and procedures remain in compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices, set and measure team performance/goals, engage in production scheduling decisions, and work cross-functionally to close nonconformance investigations and introduce new product SKUs.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 3 years of drug product manufacturing or operations experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of drug product manufacturing or operations experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of drug product manufacturing or operations experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of drug product manufacturing or operations experience
• 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

• At least 6 years of manufacturing experience, with 3 years of leadership experience directly within drug product manufacturing that includes inspection of product.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Business, Microbiology, or a related field
• Strong understanding of lean concepts and application within a regulated manufacturing environment
• Effective at working in fast-paced environments, specifically in a leadership capacity to facilitate objective decision making

Responsibilities

• Staff selection, training, oversight, performance, and development.
• Schedule adherence for tasks including, but not limited to manufacturing, qualification, and maintenance activities.
• Participating as a role model in Lean culture and continuous improvement programs with responsibility to translate onto the manufacturing floor.
• Elevating critical and impactful events to senior management and making real time processing decisions.
• Ensuring standard operating procedures are accurate for performing unit operations, batch record review is completed accurately meeting disposition timelines, and non-conformances are initiated & closed with right the first time documentation
• Using appropriate systems for job duties (SAP, QMTS, and LIMS etc.).
• Identifying and implementing process and safety improvements.
• Communicating production floor and project work at different levels of management.
• Interacting with business partners and internal/external audit teams including regulatory agencies as required.
• Working with business partners to assist with the scheduling of maintenance tasks, engineering evaluations, and quality investigations.
• Supporting the introduction of new products and technologies into the facility.
• Troubleshooting and performing initial assessment of events that have the potential to impact area safety and product quality.
• Assessing departmental utilization to complete both near-term schedule and long-term strategy.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees