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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. 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. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Sr. Instrumentation Technician

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role The Sr Instrument Technician provides repair and calibration services to support Utilities / Facilities assets and systems. Many of the systems are business critical to Site Operations and must be accurately maintained for compliance and assurance of supply.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains equipment to ensure uninterrupted service to Amgen
• Performs regular scheduled maintenance / calibration on instruments which support or monitor utility systems (ex. Environmental monitoring, Pressure, Gas detection, Scales, Process equipment, etc.)
• Provides emergency / unscheduled repairs of equipment and plant systems
• Assists with projects by collaborating with system engineers to design, specify, and commission new systems or upgrades
• Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures
• Applies engineering experience to ensure that instrumentation and controls systems used in assigned facilities are accurately specified, installed, programmed, and calibrated to perform design function
• Performs periodic assessment of field device calibration frequencies, and addressing out of tolerance (OOT), accessing instrument performance for replacement / upgrade
• Troubleshoots analog / digital hardware related problems on process control systems and instrumentation, including distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC's) and single loop analog controllers
• Performs calibration procedures including training and qualifying calibration technicians
• Optimally communicate, document, and schedule all work activities
• Responsible for maintaining instrumentation and controls equipment in a validated environment including all GxP areas
• Ensures that instrumentation and controls are of appropriate calibration designation and that red tagged and status coded instrumentation are addressed and repaired within allowable time constraints
• Must succinctly communicate the status of job activities to management and applicable production support personnel
• Other responsibilities and duties as assigned by Group Leader, Supervisor, or Senior Supervisor

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The instrumentation technician we seek will possess these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Associate degree and 4 years of Facilities experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Facilities experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates Degree in electronics technology
• Knowledge of validated systems, applicable engineering standards and an ability to work with facility specific software applications is essential to the job function
• Must manage activities to meet restrictive timelines
• Must have strong written and verbal skills
• Ability to work within and promote a culture

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

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.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A 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—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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