Global Drug Substance & Single-Use Engineering Director

BioSpace

Thousand Oaks (CA)

On-site

USD 250,000 - 450,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Retirement and Savings Plan
Stock-based incentives
Flexible work models
Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

Amgen in Thousand Oaks seeks a Senior Director - Engineering Technical Authority (Drug Substance, Infrastructure, and Single-Use) to lead enterprise technical direction for the Drug Substance network and related infrastructure. This global role shapes strategy, drives capital projects, and ensures scalable, compliant engineering across sites.

The successful candidate will have advanced engineering qualifications and 5–11 years of leadership experience, with deep knowledge of biologics

Qualifications

  • Design and implement enterprise technical direction for Drug Substance networks.
  • Leadership experience in regulated, biologics manufacturing environments.
  • Experience with capital projects, lifecycle asset management, and global network initiatives.
  • Strong ability to align technical strategy with project execution.

Responsibilities

  • Provide enterprise technical leadership for Drug Substance and Single-Use systems.
  • Set technical directions, standards, and practices across projects, sites, and network priorities.
  • Lead ETA organization development, coaching sequence of technical leaders and engineers.
  • Represent Amgen with external firms, societies, and regulatory bodies as needed.

Skills

Enterprise tech leadership
Biologics manufacturing
Capital project delivery
Front-end planning
Global engineering networks

Education

Doctorate degree in Engineering
Masters degree in Engineering
Bachelors degree in Engineering

Job description

Amgen in Thousand Oaks seeks a Senior Director - Engineering Technical Authority (Drug Substance, Infrastructure, and Single-Use) to lead enterprise technical direction for the Drug Substance network and related infrastructure. This global role shapes strategy, drives capital projects, and ensures scalable, compliant engineering across sites.

The successful candidate will have advanced engineering qualifications and 5–11 years of leadership experience, with deep knowledge of biologics

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