Senior Associate QA

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.

Senior Associate Quality Assurance

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! The Sr. Associate Quality Assurance position supports Amgen’s Quality Assurance program under the Plant QA organization providing daily oversight of the Drug Product manufacturing areas. Under general supervision, the role provides support and quality oversight of our Drug Product Manufacturing facility, ensuring the execution of our processes, procedures, and use of quality systems aligns with regulatory requirments.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Purposeful presence on the manufacturing floor, inc. Inspection support, ASP and QA assessments,
• Electronic batch record review,
• SOP revision approval,
• Maximo System - Work order, job plan approvals,
• Quality support and approval of minor deviations and CAPA records.
• MES revisions and approvals

Responsibilities will include evaluation of compliance issues, providing recommendations, and assuring progress of quality records to completion. The Sr. Associate will also represent functional area quality for the Drug Product Quality Assurance department in the execution of projects necessary to achieve departmental operational goals and will work in a team matrix environment.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The quality assurance professional we seek is an employee with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 months of Quality experience OR

Associate’s degree and 2 years of Quality experience OR

High school diploma / GED and 4 years of Quality experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, or related science field
• Demonstrated ability to perform GMP operations including following detailed SOPs, maintaining training, and good documentation practices
• Experience managing projects through to completion meeting timelines.
• Ability to evaluate documentation and operations according to company procedures.
• Experience working with Quality Systems
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks at one time
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Demonstrated ability to work as both a team player and independently
• Display leadership attributes and drive improvement initiatives
• Solid understanding and application of aseptic behaviors and principles

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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.

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

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and demonstrates its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

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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.

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