Associate Utilities Automation Engineer

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 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.

Amgen is seeking an Associate Utilities Automation Engineer, internally known as a Manufacturing Systems Engineer, in our state-of-the-art Rhode Island facility to join the Automation Engineering team and who will report to the Mfg Systems Engineering Manager. As a key member of the Automation Engineering team, the person will support complex and challenging utility automation initiatives that require understanding of analytical problem‑solving techniques, project management, lifecycle management and Operational Excellence.

Additionally, the person is responsible for providing project leadership and daily operational support to the Automation Engineering team at the Amgen Rhode Island site.

• Provides technical support to commercial manufacturing and utilities operations, specific to process control, automation infrastructure, and utility systems
• Works closely with multiple teams, including manufacturing, process engineering, utility operations, maintenance, quality assurance, and validation to implement operational improvements and projects
• Leads and supports technical root cause analysis, incident investigations, and fixing process control issues related to electrical, instrumentation and control systems supporting utility generation and distribution systems
• Provides technical support to troubleshoot and resolve equipment, automation, or process issues in the field
• Develop original code to support operational changes and optimizations on multiple utility PLC platforms
• Perform system owner responsibilities such as change control, maintenance, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
• Devises new approaches to complex problems through adaptations and modifications of standard automation technical principles
• Develop, organize, analyze, and present results for operational issues and engineering projects of small scope and complexity
• Communicates with multiple levels within the organization, highlighting issues and proposing solutions
• Provides technical support and issue resolution 24x7 on‑call support of Automation systems on a rotational based frequency
• Applies experience and knowledge of industry best practices and tools to attain an innovative organization

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dedicated professional we seek is a collaborative teammate with these qualifications.

• High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Engineering experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 4 years of Engineering experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Direct experience with regulated environments (i.e. cGMP, OSHA, EPA) including a detailed understanding of cGMPs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to function within multi-functional teams and accept a team-based culture.
• Familiarity with Allen‑Bradley PLCs, Factory Talk suite of applications
• Experience with the following automation platforms:
  Siemens Step‑7/TIA Portal, WinCC, Siemens Desigo, iFix SCADA, OSI PI, Emerson DeltaV
• Direct experience in a regulated environment (e.g. GMP, OSHA, EPA) including a detailed understanding of current good manufacturing practices
• Familiar…