Senior Engineer - Utilities & Systems/Automation Integration

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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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer.  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.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
 

Senior Engineer - Utilities & Systems/Automation Integration
 

What you will do
 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will support Facilities & Engineering (F&E) operations at Amgen Manufacturing Limited (AML) in Juncos, Puerto Rico. This role provides engineering expertise across utilities systems, process monitoring, and systems integration, supporting reliability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
 

The position supports Amgen priorities for continuous improvement through process verification, process understanding, and data‑enabled decision making. The role includes involvement in automation and digitalization activities, such as supporting data integration systems, process monitoring tools, and automation‑related issue resolution, in collaboration with automation teams. This position offers exposure to multiple utilities modalities, process designs, and unit operations in a highly collaborative environment.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Optimize Central Utilities automation systems by identifying recurring control, communication, and process performance issues; analyzing root causes with System Owners and automation teams; and implementing improvements that strengthen reliability, recovery, and operating performance.
• Develop predictive monitoring and data models using process historian and equipment data to detect abnormal trends, anticipate failures, and identify opportunities to improve the performance of utilities systems such as chillers, boilers, pumps, and cooling towers.
• Advance automation and digital innovation by supporting PLC/SCADA lifecycle activities, system upgrades, commissioning, and OT/IT integration with historians and dashboards, while ensuring solutions meet GMP, data integrity, and validation requirements.
• Perform and/or contribute to automation troubleshooting, communication issues between different programs, in collaboration with utilities engineers and automation teams.

• Identifying abnormal process performance to identify root cause, troubleshooting, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement corrections.
• Support the development and implementation of digital tools and automation strategies in collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
• Support or provide input to custom scripts, logic, or monitoring solutions developed by automation or digital teams.
• Use data analytics software to review, assess, and improve process operation performance, data retrieval and reporting for utilities performance.
• Integrate data from process historians into dashboards and advanced monitoring platforms in collaboration with automation and IT teams.
• Apply statistical analysis in-order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements.
• Provides data analysis and interpretation and assesses impact of the data.
• Participates in department-wide support efforts such as safety and compliance.
• Designs, monitors, or conduct strategies or projects which significantly contribute to attaining high-priority goals.
• May develop supervisory and mentoring skills, leading people indirectly.
• Provide support during control system upgrades, migrations, and commissioning as needed and in partnership with automation teams.
• Collaborate with automation, IT, engineering, and utilities teams on cross-functional initiatives.
• Interact effectively with variety of communication and working styles.
•  Contribute to F&E digitalization initiatives and continuous improvement goals.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, data integrity (ALCOA), and validation requirements.
• Support integration between OT systems (PLC/SCADA) and IT platforms (data historians, dashboards).

• Support lifecycle activities for automation systems in coordination with system owners and automation functions.
   

What we expect of you
 

We are all different! Yet, we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Sr. Engineer professional we seek is an individual contributor with these qualifications.
 

Basic Qualifications:
 

Doctorate’s Degree in Engineering

OR

Master’s degree in Engineering and  2 years of  Engineering Support experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and  4 years of Engineering Support experience  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting utilities engineering with exposure to field automation, data integration, and data analysis tools such as process historians (e.g., PI), statistical or visualization platforms (e.g., SIMCA, Spotfire, Power BI), or similar technologies.
• Understanding of data structures and the different data types with knowledge in Control Systems, PCS, BMS, and/or Metasys knowledge.
• Experience supporting utilities systems and collaborating on automation-related troubleshooting activities in the field, in partnership with dedicated automation teams.
• Be able to multi-task and function in a dynamic environment
• Knowledge and use of advanced statistics
• Demonstrated ability to organize work, contribute to multi‑disciplinary projects, and communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong professional skills, including verbal and written communication (including technical documentation), problem solving, collaboration, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and leadership or mentoring capabilities.
    

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental & vision coverage, and life & disability insurance.
• 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 and an annual site shutdown
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed. 

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease. 

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements. Please contact us to request accommodation.