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Job Summary:

The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic, creative, and professional individual with demonstrated ability to integrate safety and health requirements into the business.

This position offers an opportunity to support Industrial Hygiene program at Amgen Thousand Oaks (ATO) within the ATO Manufacturing and Clinical Supply organization. The successful candidate is responsible for the implementation, coordination and advancement of existing and emerging IH programs and initiatives.  This individual will contribute to broader EHSS programs and help drive a culture of caring and performance excellence.

Responsibilities include:

• Inspect and evaluate work operations, production methods to identify potential chemical and physical hazards.  Ensures engineering and other controls measures effectively prevent staff exposures
• Establish and execute annual Exposure Control plan to ensure risks are adequately mitigated
• Conduct IH Assessments of high hazard material and potent compounds ensuring controls are implemented when needed
• Partner with EHSS and clients to develop and implement IH program elements.
• Collaborate with Occupational Health as needed and assists other EHSS client representatives with Industrial Hygiene issues and concerns
• Prepare reports documenting sampling findings.  Participates in follow-up investigations to ensure that corrective actions are implemented
• Interpret, apply, and enforce compliance with Federal, State, and local requirements
• Integrate identified trends, data and information into overall program plans, deliverables and recommendations based on data
• Maintain appropriate records and documentation to satisfy audit requirements
• Provide training as needed to staff
• Act as EHSS client representative for site functions as assigned providing health and safety services to client groups and coaching them on EHS management system and culture maturation
• Act as the site subject matter expert for job hazard assessment reviews, New Product Introductions, and other risk assessments.
• May implement and support various technical safety programs and other tasks as assigned 

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree Or
• Master’s degree and 3 years of industrial hygiene, biosafety and industrial ergonomics experience Or
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of industrial hygiene, biosafety and industrial ergonomics experience Or
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of industrial hygiene, biosafety and industrial ergonomics experience Or
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of industrial hygiene, biosafety and industrial ergonomics experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of laboratory and biologics manufacturing operations
• Strong industrial hygiene, biosafety, and industrial ergonomics experience
• Knowledge with regulations as they pertain to pharma/ biotech operations
• Applied knowledge and understanding of EHS principles and practices, regulatory standards, and requirements in context of business activities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, achievement oriented, self-starting, program development and project management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software systems.

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and brings to bear its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.