Senior Associate Scheduler Manufacturing

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? 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, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Be part of Amgen's newest and most advanced drug substance manufacturing plant. When completed, the Amgen FleX Batch facility will combine the latest in disposable technologies with traditional stainless-steel equipment to allow for maximum flexibility in operations. The FleX Batch facility will not only feature the best in-class drug substance manufacturing technologies with embedded industry 4.0 capabilities, but it will also integrate sustainability innovations to reduce carbon and waste, as part of Amgen's plan to be a carbon-neutral company by 2027.

Senior Associate Scheduler

Live!

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will manage the day-to-day production schedule for Amgen North Carolina (ANC). As part of ANC’s Finite Scheduling team within Manufacturing Support, this position is responsible for managing the day-to-day production schedule for ANC’s biologics manufacturing facility. It is a highly visible role across the site with the core responsibility of supporting Manufacturing and Facilities & Engineering (F&E) by delivering a detailed schedule of manufacturing, maintenance, and collaborator activities. This role will also offer the opportunity to propose, participate, and lead team improvement initiatives to drive improved efficiency and scheduling accuracy. Examples of past and upcoming team initiatives include schedule adherence monitoring, new scheduling tool implementation, reporting and scheduling process standardization and automation, and development and integration of advanced scheduling tools (e.g., buffer volume tracking for buffer scheduling).

• Building and maintaining the ANC production schedule in multiple systems (i.e. VirTECS, Symphony, Smartsheets)
• Integrating the ANC maintenance activity schedule
• Leading semi-weekly stakeholder meetings to review scheduled client activities (e.g., PMs)
• Lead and support routine meetings to update and communicate the schedule with clients (i.e., manufacturing, facilities, and engineering)
• Leading team improvement initiatives to improve productivity and scheduling accuracy
• Off business hour on-call support as needed and regular morning meetings earlier than core hours (e.g., 7:45 am)

Win!

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The manufacturing professional we seek is a systems and communication with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School diploma / GED and 4 years of Engineering or Operations experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 2 years of Engineering or Operations experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 months of Engineering or Operations experience OR
• Master’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Math, or Science
• Demonstration of strong analytical proficiency
• Ability to work well with teams, open to change and new insights
• Ability to lead meetings, communicate and explain schedule recommendations effectively, and communicate well within team
• Clear analytical and critical thinking capability under pressure – able to respond to scheduling changes, capture required data, evaluate options, and communicate analysis recommendations to facilitate decision making and make decisions
• Ability to indirectly lead large multi-functional team of partners and stakeholders across large biotech facility
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills and error-proofing habits
• Knowledge of facility and manufacturing process within biotech and cell culture or purification operations
• Knowledge of scheduling tools and associated systems (Werum, VirtECS, MS Project, SAP, PI, Excel)

Thrive

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 competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

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