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Corporate Services

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

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What you will do

This position offers an opportunity to lead the Industrial Hygiene program to drive advancements and alignment globally. The position will also provide support and leadership to other programs including Biosafety, Change Management, Project Management, and other global EHSS programs at Amgen Thousand Oaks and other locations. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic, creative, and professional individual with demonstrated ability to integrate safety and health requirements into the business and interact daily with area engineers, process specialists and process leaders.

• Lead the Industrial Hygiene strategy, core IH programs and IH center of excellence team

• Implement software based global solution for Industrial Hygiene and Biosafety processes.

• Inspects and evaluates work operations, production methods to identify potential chemical and physical hazards. Ensures engineering and other controls measures effectively prevent staff exposures

• Review all new or proposed changes to processes, process equipment, materials or operations to determine all necessary EHSS requirements are addressed in a thorough and rigorous manner

• Act as primary EHSS representative to assigned projects to provide EHS Safety Engineering formal review at Concept, Basis of Design, Detailed Design and other projects

• Regular assessments of safety procedures, industrial safety practices, related equipment, training of operators, and other EHSS related items are also within scope

• Interprets, applies, and enforces compliance with Federal, State, and local requirements

• Integrates identified trends, data and information into overall program plans, deliverables and recommendations based on data

• May implement and support various technical safety programs and other tasks as assigned

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What we expect of you

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

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability experience

Or

Master’s degree and 6 years of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability experience

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Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability experience

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Associate’s degree and 10 years of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability experience

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High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Industrial Hygiene (IH) principles, Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes as they relate to IH.

• Knowledge of key EHSS programs including, IH, Hazcom, PPE, Biosafety, Chemical Management, IAQ, etc.

• Strong understanding of IH design, risk assessment and project engineering experience.

• Knowledge with regulations as they pertain to small and large molecule drugs substance and drug product production facilities in laboratory operations to ensure EHSS requirements are met in project design and delivery.

• Applied knowledge and understanding of EHS principles and practices, regulatory standards, and requirements in context of business activities.

• Strong verbal & written communication skills, ability to communicate within departments, with scientists, engineers, and managers

• Strong leadership skills in order to influence leadership, and other partners to achieve the highest safety engineering standards across the network

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization

• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act

• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.