Senior Engineer - Utilities & Systems/Automation Integration

Amgen•Juncos, PR

About The Position

The Senior Engineer supports Facilities & Engineering operations at Amgen Manufacturing Limited in Juncos, Puerto Rico. The role provides engineering expertise across utilities systems, process monitoring, and systems integration to support reliability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. It contributes to continuous improvement through process verification, process understanding, and data-enabled decision making, with involvement in automation and digitalization activities in collaboration with automation teams. The role supports a range of utility modalities, process designs, and unit operations in a collaborative environment. It advances automation and digital innovation, including data integration, process monitoring, lifecycle activities for automation systems, upgrades, commissioning, and OT/IT integration. Solutions must meet GMP, data integrity, and validation requirements. The engineer also contributes to department-wide safety and compliance efforts, high-priority projects, and cross-functional digitalization and continuous-improvement goals. This is an individual-contributor role that may include indirect leadership and mentoring.

Requirements

Doctorate degree in Engineering; or a Master's degree in Engineering and 2 years of Engineering Support experience; or a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 4 years of Engineering Support experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting utilities engineering, with exposure to field automation, data integration, and data-analysis tools such as process historians (e.g., PI), statistical or visualization platforms (e.g., SIMCA, Spotfire, Power BI), or similar technologies.
Understanding of data structures and data types, with knowledge of Control Systems, PCS, BMS, and/or Metasys.
Experience supporting utilities systems and collaborating on field automation troubleshooting with dedicated automation teams.
Ability to multitask and function in a dynamic environment.
Knowledge and use of advanced statistics.
Ability to organize work, contribute to multidisciplinary projects, and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including technical documentation, problem solving, collaboration, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and leadership or mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

Optimize Central Utilities automation systems by identifying recurring control, communication, and process-performance issues; analyzing root causes with System Owners and automation teams; and implementing improvements.
Develop predictive monitoring and data models using process historian and equipment data to detect abnormal trends, anticipate failures, and improve utilities systems such as chillers, boilers, pumps, and cooling towers.
Support PLC/SCADA lifecycle activities, system upgrades, commissioning, and OT/IT integration with historians and dashboards while ensuring GMP, data integrity, and validation requirements are met.
Perform or contribute to automation troubleshooting, including communication issues between programs, in collaboration with utilities engineers and automation teams.
Identify abnormal process performance, determine root causes, troubleshoot, and collaborate across functions to implement corrections.
Support development and implementation of digital tools and automation strategies with cross-functional teams.
Provide input to or support custom scripts, logic, and monitoring solutions developed by automation or digital teams.
Use data analytics software to assess and improve process operations, data retrieval, and utilities-performance reporting.
Integrate process-historian data into dashboards and advanced monitoring platforms in collaboration with automation and IT teams.
Apply statistical analysis to solve processing issues and evaluate process-improvement opportunities.
Analyze and interpret data and assess its impact.
Participate in department-wide support efforts, including safety and compliance.
Design, monitor, or conduct strategies or projects that contribute significantly to high-priority goals.
Provide support during control-system upgrades, migrations, and commissioning in partnership with automation teams.
Collaborate with automation, IT, engineering, and utilities teams on cross-functional initiatives.
Contribute to Facilities & Engineering digitalization initiatives and continuous-improvement goals.
Ensure compliance with GMP, ALCOA data-integrity principles, and validation requirements.
Support integration between OT systems, including PLC/SCADA, and IT platforms, including data historians and dashboards.
Support automation-system lifecycle activities in coordination with system owners and automation functions.
Interact effectively with people who have varied communication and working styles.
May develop supervisory and mentoring skills and lead people indirectly.

Benefits

Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents.
Financial plans with opportunities to save for retirement or other goals.
Work/life balance and career-development opportunities.
Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Life and disability insurance.
Discretionary annual bonus program.
Stock-based long-term incentives.
Award-winning time-off plans and an annual site shutdown.
Flexible work models where possible.