Process Development Senior Associate at Amgen

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

Youve 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 missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Process Development Senior Associate

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What you will do

Lets do this! Lets change the world! In this vital role you will develop cell culture and purification processes for recombinant proteins to improve the production yields, evaluating process robustness through process characterization, transferring processes to manufacturing, and conducting other relevant experiments such as facility fit and raw material evaluation.

• Work in a team environment to contribute to drug substance process development.
• Execute mammalian cell culture experiments at different scales in shake flasks and bioreactors.
• Execute purification experiments, mainly filtration and chromatography, at bench and pilot scale as needed.
• Document experimental data in lab notebooks.
• Analyze the data and present to the team.
• Author technical reports and support regulatory filing as needed.
• Contribute to technology development projects to seek continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a motivated individual with these qualifications.

• High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Process Development experience OR
• Associates degree and 4 years of Process Development experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 2 years of Process Development experience OR
• Masters degree

• Relevant hands-on lab experience in cell culture or protein purification.
• Attention to details and critical thinking ability.
• Experience in Design of Experiments and statistical analysis is a plus.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated and strong organization skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

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

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

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.