Director Engineering

Career Category Engineering Job Description HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION? If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Be part of Amgen's newest and most advanced drug substance manufacturing plant. T he Amgen FleX batch facility combine s the latest in disposable technologies with traditional stainless steel equipment to allow for maximum flexibility in operations . Not only featur ing the best in-class drug substance manufacturing technologies with embedded industry 4.0 capabilities, but also integrat ing sustainability innovations to reduce carbon and waste . Director, Engineering Live What you will do As Director, Engineering at Amgen North Carolina (ANC), you will lead the site’s Engineering, Automation, Maintenance, and Instrumentation capabilities to deliver safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient drug-substance manufacturing operations. You will establish and execute the long-term technical and organizational strategy required to sustain, improve, and expand a complex GMP manufacturing operation. This role requires a proven site-level leader who can build and lead a high-performing technical organization while balancing safety, GMP compliance, asset reliability, supply continuity, cost, and long-term capability. In this role, you will: ​ Provide strategic and operational leadership for Engineering, Automation, Maintenance, and Instrumentation functions. Ensure safe, reliable, and compliant performance of manufacturing equipment, automation systems and instrumentation. Establish and execute the site asset-management strategy, including preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, calibration, reliability, spare-parts, and lifecycle-management programs. Lead the engineering compliance program, maintaining inspection readiness and ensuring adherence to cGMP, EHS, quality-system, and applicable regulatory requirements. Partner with Site Operations, Quality, Digital/Automation, Supply Chain, and Capital Project Delivery to integrate new assets, resolve technical risks, and implement the long-term site operating strategy. Lead technical support for installed systems and equipment, including system ownership, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, reliability improvement, and sustainable corrective actions. Establish governance for maintenance execution and work management, including planning, scheduling, backlog management, work-order quality, contractor oversight, and performance metrics. Develop, manage, and forecast departmental operating and capital budgets; prioritize resources against safety, quality, supply, reliability, and lifecycle risks. Build and lead a high-performing organization using an appropriate mix of employees, contingent workers, and service providers. Set clear accountabilities, develop talent, coach leaders, and create succession plans for critical technical roles. Manage strategic service-provider relationships and ensure contractors perform work safely, compliantly, and to required quality standards. Escalate significant quality, compliance, supply, safety, and asset-reliability risks to site leadership with clear options and recommendations. Drive continuous improvement through data-based decision making, lean maintenance practices, digital tools, reliability engineering, and sustainability initiatives. Represent ANC within Amgen’s global engineering, automation, maintenance, and instrumentation networks; adopt and contribute leading practices across the network. Make timely, risk-based decisions and trade-offs to protect patients, employees, compliance, and supply. Win What we expect of you We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic engineering professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications: Basic Qualifications: Doctorate D egree and 4 years of Engineering e xperience Or Master’s D egree and 8 years of Engineering e xperience Or Bachelor’s D egree and 10 years of Engineering experience And In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 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: 12+ years of progressive engineering, maintenance, automation, instrumentation, utilities, reliability, or asset-management experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or similarly regulated manufacturing. 7+ years of leadership experience, including direct management of technical professionals and accountability for multi-function teams, contractors, and service providers. Demonstrated leadership of a site-level Engineering, Automation, Maintenance, and Instrumentation organization supporting GMP manufacturing operations. Proven accountability for manufacturing equipment, automation platforms, process instrumentation, clean utilities, and critical production-support systems, with measurable results in reliability, compliance, and operational perform