Sr Associate Scheduler

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. 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.

Sr. Associate Scheduler

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will responsible for managing the day-to-day production schedule for Drug Substance Manufacturing. This is a highly visible role across the site with the core responsibility of supporting manufacturing and EF&R by delivering a detailed schedule of manufacturing, maintenance, and client activities. This role will also offer the opportunity to propose, participate, and lead team improvement initiatives to drive improved efficiency and scheduling accuracy. Additionally, this role is a key communication and technical interface between the GMP manufacturing teams in the plant and our partner organizations within the global network. This Sr. Associate Scheduling position is within Amgen Thousand Oaks Drug Substance Supply (Manufacturing) organization.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the Downstream production schedule for Clinical and Commercial manufacturing in a multi-suite facility.
• Lead meetings as needed and update and communicate the schedule to clients.
• Forecast potential issues and help drive solutions.
• Schedule EF&R activities, validation, and project support.
• Work with the various teams (EBR, PTS, PD, CPE, Supply Chain, and Purification) on New Product Introduction and Resupply.
• Requires scientific and technical understanding.
• Champions Lean Transformation and OE initiatives, facilitates the drive towards continuous improvement in the plant and tracks progress on a plant level.
• May support Manufacturing in troubleshooting Deviation events, conducting problem solving and RCAs, owning records, and works with Quality, EF&R, EH&S, PD, CPE, etc to develop and own CAPAs to prevent recurrence.
• May collaborate with Regulatory and Quality partners to manage change control records and respond to regulatory questions and/or audit findings.
• Technical specialist who leads or participates in projects to introduce new products and/or sophisticated technologies into the plant.
• Off business hour on-call support as needed.
• Knowledge of complex excel formulas or background in programming
• General Knowledge of Smartsheets
• Experience with Data Visualizations, generating reports using power BI, Tableau, Spotfire or similar programs

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The manufacturing scheduling professional we seek is a collaborative team-player with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school/GED + 4 years manufacturing and operations experience OR
• Associate’s + 2 years manufacturing and operations experience OR
• Bachelor’s + 6 months manufacturing and operations experience OR
• Master's

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Life Sciences and the following :
• Experience in GMP Tech Support roles, GMP operations, process development or scheduling.
• Technical knowledge of drug substance (upstream and/or downstream) processing and broad understanding of related disciplinary areas
• Ability to coordinate, analyze, and interpret technical data through trend analysis, forecasting, modeling
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical information with internal and external colleagues of varying organizational levels in both presentation and technical writing forms
• Ability to coach, mentor and/or cross train colleagues within core technical areas
• Background in lean manufacturing methodologies and operational excellence

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.

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.

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 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
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

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

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

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.

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