Process Engineer

at  Amgen

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of directly related experience OR
• Associate’s degree and/or 6 years of directly related experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of directly related experience
• Ability to engage diverse stakeholders in cross functional and cross-cultural environments.
• Ability in participating in projects and to achieve the targeted milestones.
• Possess effective written and verbal communication skills.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• 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 minimal 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.
• Benchmark equipment performance (e.g. reliability, productivity) and determine improvement plans.
• Periodically review and/or improve equipment safety, maintenance strategy, spare parts and other continuous improvement opportunities to enhance reliability.
• Work independently and/or with project managers to complete engineering projects of various scales within schedule, budget, and quality constraints.
• Responsible for commissioning and qualification activities including FAT, SAT, automation checkouts, IQ, OQ, PQ, and asset/preventive maintenance/spare parts creation for new process equipment
• Participate in the system walk-down, ensure the closure of punch items and support the takeover of the system from the project team
• Lead equipment readiness initiatives for New Product Introduction or Product Campaign Changeover
• 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.