Director, Engineering Projects

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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.

Director - Engineering Projects

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a highly skilled team in the delivery of Amgen’s capital project portfolio in eastern North America to provide Amgen with the facilities and capabilities it needs to serve our future patients around the globe. This includes management of a diverse portfolio of capital projects spanning GMP production facilities, Development laboratories, and office and collaboration areas.

This position is also a member of the Global Capital projects leadership team that looks to continually innovate as an industry leader in the delivery of capital projects while learning from our external partners and peers around the world.

Job Summary

The Director of Engineering Projects manages the capital project portfolio across Amgen’s facilities in eastern North America. This includes Amgen’s largest GMP Drug Substance site in Rhode Island, Process Development Innovation Hub in Cambridge MA, North America Distribution Center in Kentucky, Shared Services center in Tampa, Lab and office facilities in Rockville, and Deerfield and other office locations in the eastern US and Canada. This position is responsible for defining project scope, forming project teams, ensuring safe execution, developing project strategy, master schedules and spending schedules. The director shall provide day to day management and leadership including mentoring, staff development and work prioritization for a team of direct and indirect reports. In addition, the director shall provide input into department objectives and establishment of strategic direction within the Global Capital Project Management team.

Other responsibilities include ensuring the health of the capital portfolio in the following areas:

• Safe execution (being purposefully present on job site and leading by example)
• Project objectives that meet business goals with accurate interpretation company policies
• Project funding processes (governance approvals of scope, cash flow, schedule, and deliverables)
• Motivating project teams to meet ambitious targets
• Contractor evaluation and selection process
• Logistics system, including RFQ’s, bid selection materials management, invoice approval.
• Inclusion and belonging for all integrated teams across the portfolio
• Governance, including progress vs. schedule vs. cost with appropriate teams and provide regular updates to client and management

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The engineering professional we seek will possess these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 4 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

OR

Master's degree and 8 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

OR

Bachelor's degree and 10 years of direct experience in Engineering, Capital Projects Execution or a related technical discipline

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 or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years of managing people in a multi-tiered organization and directing the allocation of resources
• Experience leading teams, projects, and programs
• Excellent communication
• Strong safety focus with consistent track record of creating strong safety cultures on their projects
• Firm understanding of construction, start-up and commissioning
• Demonstrated track record of successful project execution in operating GMP plants
• Strong collaborator, problem solver and solution oriented
• Demonstrated interpersonal and facilitation skills and ability to work in a collaborative team- based environment.
• Extremely organized and thinks strategically to support key business decisions
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and effectively set priorities
• Experience in Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology industry
• Lean Construction or other continuous improvement methodology experience, applied to capital projects
• Experience in Lifecycle Cost Analysis and Total Cos of Ownership

Competencies:

• Extensive experience in the application of project management skills and concepts with a critical understanding of related engineering subject areas
• Leadership experience with a diverse team of technical engineering and facilities management with an organization in the Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology industries
• Demonstrate practical ingenuity with the ability to problem solve using practical solutions
• Possess internal personal skills to work with technical scientific and management internal user groups
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and conflicting priorities across a broad range of facilities and engineering subject areas
• Excellent people skills featuring a demonstrated supervisory style that fits within the Amgen culture and values
• Interpersonal and facilitation skills necessary to forge consensus among competing client interests on critical and time-sensitive issues—important in ensuring that, within Amgen's collaborative culture, projects are finished on time and on budget.
• Acts independently to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of processes or procedures.
• Strong analytical skills in the information and communication technologies
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to tactfully negotiate and positively influence peers and executive leadership
• Effective oral, visual and written communication skills with the ability to listen effectively
• Resilience & flexibility with the ability to react to changes quickly, and the ability to apply knowledge to new problems and new contexts

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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.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

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:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• 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 bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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