Senior Electrical Engineer - System Owner

Amgen; Holly Springs (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen in Holly Springs, NC seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer - System Owner to ensure safe, reliable operation and lifecycle management of critical electrical systems across process, utilities and building services.

You will lead technical investigations, coordinate faults, incidents, and corrective actions, and drive improvements, including AI-enabled troubleshooting and technology deployment. Travel up to 10% and close collaboration with EHSS and operations are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10 years of engineering experience (as per basic qualifications).
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for safe, reliable operation and lifecycle management of an electrical system.
• Coordinate response to faults, outages, near misses and electrical incidents; ensure corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Education

Doctorate degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

High school diploma / GED

Job description

Career Category Engineering Job Description Join Amgen's 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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 lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

SENIOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - SYSTEM OWNER

What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will be joining the Facilities & Engineering (F&E) group. The Electrical System Owner (ESO) is accountable for the safe, reliable, compliant operation and lifecycle management of an electrical system. The owner may delegate work to qualified personnel but retains oversight of the system and its risks.

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

Manage faults and incidents: Coordinate response to failures, outages, near misses, and electrical incidents; ensure investigation findings lead to corrective actions.

Monitor performance and risk: Review reliability, condition, recurring defects, overdue actions, and emerging risks; prioritize corrective work.

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 in 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. Ensure plant readiness and quality and regulatory compliance for internal audits, external agency audits, and partner audits. Plan maintenance and testing: Set inspection, testing, and preventive-maintenance requirements based on risk, manufacturer guidance, and operating experience. 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. Deploys engineering expertise from within the company (global and site-based authorities) as well as expertise 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's degree and 8 years of Engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Engineering experience
• Master's degree and 2 years of Engineering experience
• Doctorate degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong leadership and collaboration ski