Lab Design Project Engineer

BioSpace; Thousand Oaks (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Lab Design Project Engineer to provide technical leadership for planning, design, renovation, and delivery of laboratory facilities. You will ensure compliant, safe, and flexible lab environments aligned with scientific and business needs.

The role partners with researchers, engineers, architects, project managers, facilities teams, and external partners across the project lifecycle, including travel to sites to support development, reviews, and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for laboratory planning, design standards, workflows, and facility requirements.
• Translate scientific and operational needs into laboratory design criteria, space programs, equipment requirements, and functional layouts.
• Lead or support the development and maintenance of laboratory design standards, specifications, guidelines, and standard details.
• Review laboratory design packages—concepts, layouts, drawings, specifications, and equipment plans—for functionality, safety, constructability, and compliance.
• Ensure designs address ventilation, containment, biosafety, chemical safety, ergonomics, utilities, waste handling, material flow, security, and emergency response needs.
• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to define current and future laboratory capacity, flexibility, adjacencies, and workflow requirements.
• Lead technical aspects of capital projects from early feasibility and programming through design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and occupancy.
• Travel as needed to support site assessments, project meetings, design workshops, construction reviews, commissioning, and operational-readiness activities.
• Coordinate with Engineering, EHS, Facilities, Quality, Operations, external consultants, FM Insurance, and construction teams to resolve

Job description

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity‑related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, youll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award‑winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Lab Design Project Engineer

What You Will Do

Lets do this. Lets change the world. The Laboratory Design Project Engineer provides technical leadership and subject matter expertise for the planning, design, renovation, and delivery of laboratory facilities. This role ensures laboratory environments are safe, compliant, functional, flexible, and aligned with scientific, operational, and business requirements. The Lab Design Project Engineer partners with researchers, engineers, architects, project managers, facilities teams, EHS professionals, equipment manufacturers, external design firms and global insurance partners throughout the project lifecycle.

This position requires travel to project sites and organizational locations to support project development, design reviews, field assessments, construction activities, commissioning, and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for laboratory planning, design standards, workflows, and facility requirements.
• Translate scientific and operational needs into laboratory design criteria, space programs, equipment requirements, and functional layouts.
• Lead or support the development and maintenance of laboratory design standards, specifications, guidelines, and standard details.
• Review laboratory design packagesincluding concepts, layouts, drawings, specifications, and equipment plansfor functionality, safety, constructability, and compliance.
• Ensure designs address laboratory ventilation, containment, biosafety, chemical safety, ergonomics, utilities, waste handling, material flow, security, and emergency response needs.
• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to define current and future laboratory capacity, flexibility, adjacencies, and workflow requirements.
• Lead technical aspects of capital projects from early feasibility and programming through design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and occupancy.
• Travel as needed to support site assessments, project meetings, design workshops, construction reviews, commissioning, and operational‑readiness activities.
• Coordinate with Engineering, EHS, Facilities, Quality, Operations, external consultants, FM Insurance, and construction teams to resolve