Senior Manager Engineering – Facilities & Engineering

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Job Description

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.

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 Manager Engineering – Facilities & Engineering

What you will do
 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will lead Facilities & Engineering programs supporting site utilities, facility infrastructure, reliability, sustainability, capital projects, and digital transformation. You will ensure utility and facility systems operate safely, reliably, efficiently, and in compliance with regulatory and business requirements.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team of engineering professionals and system owners responsible for optimizing asset performance, advancing continuous improvement & site's digitalization integrating AI strategy in Engineering and Facilities organization.
 

Success in this role will be driven by the ability to lead and deliver results across the following areas: Utilities Reliability and Performance, Asset Lifecycle Management, Sustainability Leadership, Energy and Water Efficiency, Digital Transformation and AI Adoption, Automation and Smart Facilities Technologies, Capital Project Delivery, Team Development and Leadership, Regulatory Compliance and Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement.
 

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical and operational leadership for site utility systems and facility infrastructure, including steam, chilled water, cooling towers, compressed air, water systems, condensate return, fuel systems, HVAC, facility automation, and related support systems.
• Lead reliability and asset management programs that improve system performance, lifecycle management, operational readiness, energy efficiency, and capacity.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators, predictive maintenance tools, data analytics, and reliability engineering practices to identify risks and drive improvements.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective and preventive actions for utility and facility system failures or performance deviations.
• Develop and execute long-term infrastructure renewal, proactive maintenance, and capital replacement strategies aligned with site and corporate objectives.
•  Lead Facilities & Engineering digital transformation initiatives, including advanced analytics, automation, AI-based tools, predictive monitoring, digital twins, machine learning applications, and automated reporting platforms.
• Partner with site and corporate digital, automation, engineering, utility, energy, and sustainability teams to support long-term strategic roadmaps.
• Lead sustainability and energy management initiatives supporting decarbonization, water stewardship, energy reduction, resource efficiency, and environmental performance goals.
• Develop, prioritize, and manage departmental capital plans, budgets, and projects supporting infrastructure, reliability, sustainability, capacity, and business continuity.
• Provide engineering leadership for the design, installation, commissioning, qualification, startup, and implementation of facility and utility systems.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers, system owners, and technical professionals while supporting talent acquisition, succession planning, training, performance management, and employee engagement.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, safety, collaboration, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure utility and facility systems comply with regulatory requirements, safety standards, engineering specifications, and company procedures.
• Support inspections, audits, regulatory interactions, and engineering documentation related to facilities and utilities.
• Manage engineering consultants, contractors, and service providers to ensure quality, safety, performance, cost effectiveness, and successful project execution.
• Provide leadership and technical support during abnormal operations, shutdowns, emergencies, business-critical events, and non-standard work schedules as required.

What we expect of you
 

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Sr Mgr Engineer professional we seek is a collaborative people leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree in Engineering & 2 years of engineering industry experience

OR

Master’s degree in Engineering & 6 years of engineering industry experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering & 8 years of engineering industry experience

And

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 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.

Beyond that, additional preferred qualifications are:

• Strong utility systems experience with the knowledge of Site or Facility wide.
• Direct experience with FDA or other related regulatory agencies, including an understanding of current regulatory trends.
• In-depth knowledge of engineering principles and the ability to resolve technical problems of moderate to large complexity and scope.
• Strong leaderships background with experience coaching, mentoring, counseling and developing technical professionals.
• Experience leading engineering, reliability, maintenance, asset management, infrastructure, or capacity improvement initiatives.
• Experience developing business cases and cost estimates for reliability, lifecycle asset management, maintenance, or capital improvement projects.
• Experience deploying predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, smart sensors, AI-enabled analytics, or advanced asset health technologies.
• Solid understanding of financial analysis tools, project cost development, and budget management.
• Experience delegating, overseeing, and managing project work performed by others.
• Strong project management skills, including experience presenting to large groups and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including technical writing in English and Spanish.
• Demonstrated skills in negotiation, persuasion, facilitation, conflict resolution, leadership, and team building.
• Familiarity with ISO 55000, ISO 14224, SMRP, Uptime Elements, or similar reliability and asset management frameworks.
• Certification such as CMRP, CRL, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or asset management certification is a plus.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
 

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• 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
• 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 diverse, 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 and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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