Project Controls Senior Manager - Scheduler

Amgen • New Albany, OH

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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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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. SENIOR MANAGER PROJECT CONTROLS - SCHEDULING What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead the Planning and Scheduling function supporting Amgen's capital project portfolio. This role provides organizational leadership for a team of planners and schedulers while establishing standardized planning processes, portfolio governance, and scheduling best practices across multiple capital programs. The leader partners with Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Procurement, CQV, Finance, Manufacturing, Site Operations, and Regulatory organizations to ensure projects are planned, executed, and reported consistently throughout the project lifecycle. In addition to maintaining technical excellence in project scheduling, the leader is responsible for developing talent, managing organizational resources, driving standardization and continuous improvement initiatives, implementing digital planning solutions, and providing portfolio-level analytics that support executive decision making.

Requirements

• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR Doctorate degree and 2 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience
• Experience in capital project delivery. managing Engineering or Construction in project controls across estimating, cost control, scheduling, and compliance
• Expertise in planning and scheduling while possessing proven leadership capabilities to execute capital construction projects.
• Experience managing integrated master schedules, developing planning standards, mentoring planning professionals, and leading cross-functional organizations.
• Effective communication, organizational leadership, and executive presentation skills are essential, along with the ability to influence stakeholders across all organizational levels.
• Primavera P6 expert, MS Project and Planner, Excel, Smart Planning, Smartsheets, Power Bi

Responsibilities

• Lead the Planning and Scheduling organization and portfolio. Supporting Amgen's capital project portfolio, ensuring standardized planning practices, portfolio governance, and successful execution across multiple concurrent capital projects.
• Executive and network reporting performance dashboards within capital project portfolio.
• Support the development of integrative master schedules from planning to operational readiness through licensure.
• Establish staffing strategies and optimize resource allocation across multiple projects.
• Champion digital planning solutions including Primavera P6, Planisware, AI-enabled planning tools, and reporting platforms.
• Partner closely with Project Managers and Project Controls teams to support successful project delivery.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across all organizational levels.
• Develop standard methodology for earned value management and risk management.
• Work closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules.
• Manage the Planning and Scheduling organization supporting the capital portfolio.
• Lead planning governance across all assigned projects.
• Mentor planners and project controls professionals.
• Manage contractor scheduling requirements and performance.
• Coordinate with all organizational subject matter experts to ensure accurate reporting.
• Collate project-level schedule reporting to produce program-level schedule reporting.
• Coordinate the alignment of the project-level schedules with the Master Program Schedule
• Provide data required for Earned Value Management
• Perform impact analyses and schedule updates as required.
• Oversee and proactively provides guidance to project-level schedule consultants.
• Perform schedule forecasting and predictability.
• Incorporate schedule Change Orders in coordination with Program Change Management
• Lead implementation of schedule AI-enabled planning tools.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives within Project Controls.
• Develop data-driven planning dashboards using Power BI and Planisware.
• Promote automation and predictive scheduling methodologies.

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