Engineer I

**Engineer I - Process Engineering (Biologics)**

**Amgen Singapore Manufacturing, Singapore**

**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?**

Amgen is one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies. For over 4 decades, Amgen has pioneered biotechnology breakthroughs, to bring state-of-the-art medicines from laboratory to the patient. Amgen has not only discovered and developed innovative human therapeutics, but has invested in cutting edge manufacturing capability and support services to deliver these exciting therapies to medical teams around the world. Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) is the fastest growing region in Amgen. Now we are hiring a **Engineer I - Process Engineering (Biologics) **in **Amgen Singapore Manufacturing**.

**Engineer I - Process Engineering (Biologics)**

**Live**:
**What you will do**

The system owner must be able to effectively communicate and collaborate closely with the stakeholders and various SME to ensure equipment are operational to sustain daily operations, resolve operation challenges and implement effective measures to address the challenges to ensure without compromising on safety and compliance.

Main Responsibilities:
**Daily Operations**:

- Subject matter expert for process equipment performance and operation to ensure safety, compliance and sustained operation.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross function stakeholders to address operational challenges and concerns to ensure sustained operation and mínimal interruptions to operations activities.
- Lead and participate in equipment breakdown investigations to identify root causes. Effectively communicate to the customers on the subsequent plans, short term and long-term mitigating actions.
- Collaborate closely with cross functional SME to implement effective corrective, preventive action and improvements to eliminate or mitigate future recurrence.
- Ensure operation continuity through asset lifecycle management planning, assess and identify impact to safety, compliance, operational schedule and cost.
- Perform assessment for equipment during new product introduction, change controls and other qualifications activities to ensure equipment are in its validated state.

**Continuous improvements, Innovation and operational sustainability**:

- Participate in related AMGEN network forums to determine innovative opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, agility and differentiation.
- Continuously improve business intelligence capabilities utilizing big data analysis tools to extract, analyze and trend performance data for predictive monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Actively seek opportunities for continuous improvement to improve efficiencies and differentiation through flexible use of new technologies and best industry practices.
- Review equipment performance (e.g., reliability, productivity) and benchmark against network or industry standards and determine improvement plans, with support from reliability engineer.

**Organization Leadership**
- Work in teams by educating customers on lesson learns, collaborate with customers managers to identify knowledge or trainings gaps.
- Deliver strong result in the right way by consciously being a role model that ensure results are deliver without compromising on core AMGEN values.

**Win**:
**What we expect of you**:
**Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree in Engineering OR
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 2 years of directly related experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing site OR
- Associate degree in Engineering and 6 years of directly related experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing site OR
- High school diploma/GED and 8 years of directly related experience
- Able to work independently with mínimal of no supervision.
- Experience in managing various stakeholders’ expectations related to process equipment in biopharmaceutical.
- Good communications skills, both oral and written, including presentation skills.
- Good interpersonal and facilitation skills necessary to forge consensus among competing client interests while ensuring objectives are met.
- Working knowledge of biopharmaceutical processes such as on inoculation, bioreactors, harvest, single use technologies and critical utilities is preferred. Process knowledge chromatography, buffer / media tanks, viral filtration, tangential flow filtration will also be considered.
- Experience in validation processes such as generation/execution of Installation/Operation/Performance qualification documentation.
- Knowledge in Automation systems and processes such as RD’s, Delta-V, BMS, ladder logic and PLC.
- Flexibility to work off-hours.
- Knowledge of Analytical systems used in Upstream Biologics process, Total Productive Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance concepts is an added advantage.

**Thrive**:
**What you can expect of us**

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