Maintenance Manager Instrumentation

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. 

Maintenance Manager Instrumentation

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What you will do 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will will be responsible for leading a team of maintenance and instrumentation technicians in support of production equipment maintenance activities at Amgen’s manufacturing site in Holly Springs 

This role involves a 12 hour rotating shift that aligns with 24/7 coverage to align with ANC Manufacturing shift schedules. 

Specific Duties include: 

• With minimal direction, provide leadership, mentor and technical expertise to a team of 6 to 12 maintenance staff. 

• Provide field support to troubleshoot, identify, and resolve more sophisticated equipment maintenance issues. 

• Ensure performance standards are established and consistently enforced. 

• Ensure work activities are completed correctly. Improve right-first-time completion. 

• Ensure activities are accomplished in a safe manner. 

• Ensure high resource utilization. Enhance staff efficiency. 

• Ensure work is completed with minimal disruption to site operations. 

• Manage activities to eliminate waste and ensure appropriate cost of maintenance. 

• Ensure work is completed in accordance with procedures. 

• Find opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and manage implementation. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and excellence. 

• Communicate with key customers and support groups. 

• Ensure schedule breaking activities and flow interrupters are identified and addressed. 

• Manage maintenance service providers in safe, compliant and cost-effective manner. 

• Develop and manage small improvement projects, as necessary, including driving use of predictive analytics tools. 

• Be routinely present in the field to observe staff and activities. Remove obstacles and identify and implement opportunities for improvement. 

• Assess skills and capabilities of team. Ensure appropriate staff development occurs. 

• Provide support when required - this may be outside of normal working hours including nights, weekends and holidays. 

• Other tasks as assigned. 

Win 

What we expect of you 

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The resilient professional we seek shall be able to adjust well in a fast pace working environment, while collaborating to solve issues and drive continuous improvements with these qualifications 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Doctorate degree

Or

• Masters degree and 3 years of maintenance and/or operations/maintenance experience 

Or 

• Associate’s degree and 5 years of maintenance and/or operations/maintenance experience 

Or 

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of maintenance and/or operations/maintenance experience 

Or 

• High school diploma / GDE and 12 years of maintenance and/or operations/maintenance experience 

Or 

• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have previous managerial 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. 

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Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system 

• Bachelor’s degree in life science, technical or aligned field of study 

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in operations/manufacturing environment 

• 3+ years of experience with regulated environments (i.e. cGMP, OSHA, EPA) 

• Managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams 

• Experience working with ATO GMP F&E clients and systems (Bulk Manufacturing, Filling and Packaging, Supply Chain, Quality Labs, Small Molecule Manufacturing) 

• In-depth technical knowledge of GMP equipment and instrumentation 

• Experience supporting GMP capital project execution and verification activities 

• Demonstrated leadership attributes as an individual contributor (e.g., leadership of initiatives or participation on network level or continuous improvement teams) 

• Demonstrated proficiency in process improvement methodologies 

• Leverage a strong background in GMP Maintenance combined with excellent leadership and communication skills (written and verbal) 

• Ability to support multiple clients and prioritize resources against competing objectives  

• Troubleshooting, problem-solving and investigational skills related to electro-mechanical equipment and systems.

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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.  

The annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is provided below.  

In addition to the base salary, 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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Apply now 

for a career that defies imagination 

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us. 

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