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Sr. Engineer (Utilities & Systems Integration)

Amgen SA, Juncos, Juncos, United States


What you will do
In this vital role you will support Facilities & Engineering (F&E) operations at Amgen Manufacturing Limited (AML) in Juncos, Puerto Rico. This role provides engineering expertise across utilities systems, process monitoring, and systems integration, supporting reliability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

The position supports Amgen priorities for continuous improvement through process verification, process understanding, and data‑enabled decision making. The role includes partial involvement in automation and digitalization activities, such as supporting data integration systems, process monitoring tools, and automation‑related issue resolution, in collaboration with automation teams. This position offers exposure to multiple utilities modalities, process designs, and unit operations in a highly collaborative environment.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Contribute to automation troubleshooting, communication issues between different programs, in collaboration with utilities engineers and automation teams.

Identifying abnormal process performance to identify root cause, troubleshooting, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement corrections

Support the development and implementation of digital tools and automation strategies in collaboration with cross‑functional teams

Support or provide input to custom scripts, logic, or monitoring solutions developed by automation or digital teams

Use data analytics software to review, assess, and improve process operation performance, data retrieval and reporting for utilities performance

Integrate data from process historians into dashboards and advanced monitoring platforms in collaboration with automation and IT teams

Apply statistical analysis in-order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements

Provides data analysis and interpretation, and assesses impact of the data

Participates in department‑wide support efforts such as safety and compliance

Designs, monitors, or conduct strategies or projects which significantly contribute to attaining high priority goals

May develop supervisory and mentoring skills

Provide support during control system upgrades, migrations, and commissioning as needed and in partnership with automation teams

Collaborate with automation, IT, engineering, and utilities teams on cross‑functional initiatives

Interact effectively with variety of communication and working styles

Contribute to F&E digitalization initiatives and continuous improvement goals

Ensure compliance with GMP, data integrity (ALCOA), and validation requirements

Support integration between OT systems (PLC/SCADA) and IT platforms (data historians, dashboards)

Support lifecycle activities for automation systems in coordination with system owners and automation functions

What we expect of you
We are all different! Yet, we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Sr. Engineer professional we seek is an individual contributor with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate’s Degree in Engineering

OR

Master’s degree in Engineering and 2 years of Engineering Support experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 4 years of Engineering Support experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience supporting utilities engineering with exposure to field automation, data integration, and data analysis tools such as process historians (e.g., PI), statistical or visualization platforms (e.g., SIMCA, Spotfire, Power BI), or similar technologies.

Understanding of data structures and the different data types

Experience supporting utilities systems and collaborating on automation‑related troubleshooting activities in the field, in partnership with dedicated automation teams.

Be able to multi‑task and function in a dynamic environment

Knowledge and use of advanced statistics

Demonstrated ability to organize work, contribute to multi‑disciplinary projects, and communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams.

Strong professional skills, including verbal and written communication (including technical documentation), problem solving, collaboration, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and leadership or mentoring capabilities.

What you can expect of us

A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental & vision coverage, and life & disability insurance

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 an annual site shutdown

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

Sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

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.

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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