Senior Director Engineering

About the role

The Senior Director, Engineering Technical Authority, provides enterprise technical leadership for Amgen’s Drug Substance engineering network, with additional accountability for Single-Use strategy and selected infrastructure support through the Engineering Technical Lead organization. This is a global role with primary focus on the global Drug Substance network. This leader is responsible for setting technical directions, deploying engineering capability, and ensuring consistent support across capital projects, lifecycle asset management, and global network initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise technical leadership for Drug Substance systems, Single-Use systems, and assigned infrastructure-related scopes.
• Lead the organization responsible for delivering technical direction, aligned engineering support, and consistent standards across the global manufacturing network.
• Set technical direction and align engineering strategies, standards, and practices across projects, sites, and network priorities.
• Ensure effective deployment of engineering resources to support capital projects, lifecycle asset management, and network initiatives.
• Drive alignment of technical knowledge, lessons learned, standards, and best practices across the network.
• Ensure the organization provides technical support for troubleshooting, reliability improvement, failure analysis, non-conformance response, and other lifecycle needs requiring engineering expertise.
• Shape major projects early.
• Lead engineering support for capital projects and network execution.
• Ensure the organization provides effective technical leadership across planning, design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and start-up.
• Coach direct reports and help build a strong organization of technical leaders and engineering experts.
• Represent Amgen with external firms, technical societies, and regulatory bodies as needed.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a senior engineering leader with deep technical credibility in biologics manufacturing, strong capital project experience, and the ability to lead through organizational complexity. This person must be comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels, influencing senior stakeholders, and building strong technical organizations that support global networks and competing priorities.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree in Engineering and 5 years of Engineering industry experience OR
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 9 years of Engineering industry experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 11 years of Engineering industry experience.

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 5 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline with life science experience.
• Significant experience supporting biologics Drug Substance manufacturing facilities and Drug Substance process systems.
• Strong understanding of Drug Substance process engineering, manufacturing unit operations, and lifecycle technical support.
• Significant experience leading engineering organizations that support capital project design and execution in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated enterprise technical leadership across multiple sites, projects, and engineering networks.
• Significant experience with Single-Use systems, including strategy, design, implementation, and lifecycle support.
• Experience leading project engineering organizations, subject matter expert teams, or matrixed technical resources supporting major capital programs.
• Experience supporting engineering activities across global manufacturing networks.
• Proven ability to shape technical strategy and engineering engagement during front-end planning and early project development.
• Strong understanding of capital project delivery, including planning, design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and start-up.
• Strong knowledge of applicable regulations and standards, including cGMP, building codes, and applicable pressure vessel and engineering codes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence decisions across senior leadership forums.
• Financial acumen to deploy initiatives that add shareholder value.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to represent Amgen with outside firms, technical societies, and regulatory bodies.
• Knowledge of industry trends, technology developments, and emerging engineering practices.

Benefits

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.

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