Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Systems

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Holly Springs (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive Total Rewards Plans

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Initial Therapeutics, Inc. is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Facilities & Engineering team in Holly Springs, North Carolina. This role involves electrical planning, project execution, and ensuring compliance across our innovative drug substance manufacturing plant.

The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and problem-solving skills, holding a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and preferably a Professional Engineer license. You will support our mission to develop and deliver high-quality medicines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with at least 4 years of experience.
• Professional registration such as a PE license preferred.
• Experience in regulated environments, preferably biotech.

Responsibilities

• Join Facilities & Engineering team to support electrical project planning.
• Lead engineering assessments and equipment performance evaluations.
• Ensure compliance with GMP and regulatory standards during projects.

Skills

Electrical engineering expertise

Leadership skills

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration

Knowledge of CGMP and building codes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Tools

Medium voltage electrical distribution systems

Power monitoring systems

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Systems

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission to serve patients living with serious illnesses drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll 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 lie within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Be part of Amgen’s newest and most advanced drug substance manufacturing plant. When completed, the Amgen FleX Batch facility will combine the latest in disposable technologies with traditional stainless‑steel equipment to allow for maximum flexibility in operations. The FleX Batch facility will not only feature the best‑in‑class drug substance manufacturing technologies with embedded industry 4.0 capabilities, but it will also integrate sustainability innovations to reduce carbon and waste, as part of Amgen’s plan to be a carbon‑neutral company by 2027.

What you will do

In this vital role you will be joining the Facilities & Engineering (F&E) group and collaborate with the capital projects team to ensure projects meet the site standards and requirements. You will steer the project’s electrical planning and design and support construction to ensure the projects are built and commissioned to Amgen standards.

Site design, construction, start‑up, and operational readiness

• Support the design and equipment selection from an electrical perspective of process, utilities, and building systems to optimize quality and cost across the total life cycle of assets. Ensure appropriate use of technology, and alignment to best operation and maintenance standards/practices
• Support factory acceptance testing working in partnership with global engineering during site installation, including reviewing protocols and resolving punch list items.
• Provide engineering support during construction to the Capital Projects team, resolve technical issues, and ensure project objectives are met.
• Execute and guide the commissioning and validation of systems to ensure their operational capability is aligned with requirements and GMP regulation and on‑time project delivery. Support execution of engineering and performance qualification runs while providing hyper‑care support as needed.
• Perform engineering assessments for plant equipment operations, implementing equipment modifications, and supporting engineering runs in support of new product/technology introductions as required.

Site Operations

• Responsible for Electrical engineering expertise for process, utilities, and building systems providing end‑to‑end support for operations.
• Effectively collaborate with key customers and support groups to ensure reliable plant operations.
• Work with EHSS in support of electrically related safety initiatives, plans, and investigations.
• Lead identifying and implementing engineering‑based improvements or upgrades to process equipment systems. This may include developing business cases for improvements, identifying design requirements, and translating these requirements into process equipment/system design, specifications, and supporting the construction, startup, and validation of equipment.
• Support delivery of capital projects with responsibilities for electrical design.
• Ensure plant readiness and quality and regulatory compliance for internal audits, external agency audits, and partner audits.
• Provide technical mastery and problem‑solving leadership to proactively reduce production downtime. This includes leading technical root cause analysis and implementation of corrective/preventive actions for families of systems, as well as the use of AI tools for troubleshooting and fault analysis.
• Lead new product/technology introductions by performing engineering assessments, equipment performance risk assessments, identifying gaps and owning their remediation, implementing equipment modifications, and supporting engineering runs.
• Advance AI innovative solutions and technologies for implementation and to enable volume driven growth.
• Represent Amgen with outside firms, technical societies and regulatory bodies.
• Deploy engineering expertise from within the company (global and site‑based authorities) and as expert from our industry to optimize Amgen’s assets throughout their life cycle.
• Provide rotational on‑call support and ensure 24x7 day‑to‑day reliability for plant operations.
• Up to 10% domestic/international travel.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients! The Senior Engineer professional we seek is a strong collaborative individual contributor leader with these qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Engineering experience
• Associate degree and 8 years of Engineering experience
• Bachelors degree and 4 years of Engineering experience
• Master's degree and 2 years of Engineering experience
• Doctorate degree

Preferred Qualifications

• *Professional registration, such as a Professional Engineer (PE) license.*
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, and the ability to approach technical issues with a science‑based mentality while providing clear direction within the area of expertise.
• Familiarity and/or experience working in a regulated environment, pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
• Knowledge of regulations (e.g. CGMP, building codes, fire codes, electrical codes, IEC, NEC, NETA, insurance FM, OSHA, LEED, Energy codes) to ensure compliance.
• Experience in the design and construction of medium voltage electrical distribution systems including switchgear, transformers and paralleling generators.
• Knowledge of design and construction for 600V (and below) electrical distribution systems equipment including switchgear, panelboards, lighting / lighting control, power monitoring, generators, Life Safety Systems, and Lightning Protection Systems.
• Ability to provide direction and guidance to external design firms to deliver capital projects.
• Ability to provide solutions to a large variety of technical problems of moderate to large complexity and scope.
• Problem‑solving skills to apply the application of scientific and engineering theory and calculations and creative skills in the development of hypotheses and approaches.
• Independent, ambitious, organized, able to multi‑task in project environments, and skilled in communication, facilitation, and teamwork.
• Strong leadership, technical writing, and communication/presentation skills.
• Work schedule flexibility as required to support 24/7 operations.
• Ability for domestic/international travel.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well‑being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.