Associate Engineer I

About the role

Join Amgens 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 lie within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Responsibilities

• Provide process development support to manufacturing operations
• Perform mammalian cell culture and lab activities to support the commercial development of the Amgens pipeline
• Apply fundamental scientific principles to Biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes (upstream cell culture)
• Develop novel mammalian cell culture and next generation technologies to increase yield, process robustness, and enable new unit operations
• Support the GMP manufacturing process evaluations and investigations

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED and 6 years of Scientific experience OR Associates degree and 4 years of Scientific experience OR Bachelors degree
• 2 years of experience in a Biotech/Pharma Process Development and/or Manufacturing Support role for drug substance manufacturing
• Understanding of cell culture processes, influence of raw material attributes, and impact of process deviations to growth and quality attributes
• Harvest and clarification processes used for mammalian cell culture processes
• Chemical engineering principles for the scale up of unit operations from bench scale to commercial scale
• Able to apply engineering principles and statistical analysis, including design of experiments, in order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements
• Chromatography, ultrafiltration, and normal flow filtration operations experience (a plus)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to analyze and interpret data
• Demonstrated ability to work under moderate direction
• Able to take on multiple projects at once

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: High school diploma/GED and 6 years of Scientific experience OR Associates degree and 4 years of Scientific experience OR Bachelors degree
• Preferred Qualifications: 2 years of experience in a Biotech/Pharma Process Development and/or Manufacturing Support role for drug substance manufacturing. Understanding of cell culture processes, influence of raw material attributes, and impact of process deviations to growth and quality attributes. Harvest and clarification processes used for mammalian cell culture processes. Chemical engineering principles for the scale up of unit operations from bench scale to commercial scale. Able to apply engineering principles and statistical analysis, including design of experiments, in order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements. Chromatography, ultrafiltration, and normal flow filtration operations experience (a plus). Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to analyze and interpret data. Demonstrated ability to work under moderate direction. Able to take on multiple projects at once.

Skills

• Process development support
• Mammalian cell culture and lab activities
• Biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes
• Cell culture processes
• Harvest and clarification processes
• Chemical engineering principles
• Statistical analysis
• Design of experiments
• Chromatography, ultrafiltration, and normal flow filtration operations
• Written and verbal communication
• Data analysis
• Project management

Benefits

What You Can Expect Of Us As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we will support your journey every step of the way. The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a total rewards plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• 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

Pay

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Schedule

Actual schedule will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.