Senior Manager Packaging Engineering

Amgen; New Albany (OH); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement and Savings Plan

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Annual bonus program

Stock-based long-term incentives

Generous time-off

Flexible work models

Job summary

Amgen Inc. (IR) in Ohio seeks a Senior Manager to lead a team of packaging engineers supporting commercial operations, ensuring reliable, compliant packaging processes, and meeting ongoing demand.

The role partners with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Maintenance to deliver high‑quality product while driving improvements in line performance and process control.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design with 2+ years of leadership.
• Alternate: Master's with 6+ years, Bachelor's with 8+ years, Associate with 10+, or HS with 12+ years.
• Minimum 2 years of direct people management or team leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of packaging engineers supporting commercial operations.
• Drive RCA for deviations and implement effective CAPAs.
• Improve packaging line performance via reliability, robustness, and efficiency.
• Own packaging configurations, specs, and maintenance for commercial products.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, and External Supply to ensure compliance.
• Lead continuous improvement to reduce downtime, waste, and variability.
• Support change control activities across internal and external sites.
• Provide updates to site leadership on performance and issues.
• Coordinate with cross-functional and external partners to align standards.
• Manage resources to meet production schedules and business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Packaging

Education

PhD in Engineering

Master's in Engineering

Bachelor's in Engineering

Associate's in Engineering

High school diploma

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. 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, 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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will report to the Director of Commercial Secondary Packaging and be based in Ohio, leading a team of engineers responsible for supporting commercial secondary packaging operations for final and WIP product presentations. This role is focused on ensuring reliable, compliant, and efficient packaging processes to meet ongoing commercial supply demands. The Senior Manager will set priorities and direction for the packaging organization to support day-to-day manufacturing, drive operational excellence, and continuously improve packaging performance across commercial operations. You will collaborate closely with site functions including Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Maintenance to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality product to patients. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead and develop a team of packaging engineers supporting commercial operations, ensuring timely resolution of production issues.
• Drive troubleshooting and root cause analysis for deviations, implementing effective CAPAs.
• Improve packaging line performance through enhanced equipment reliability, process robustness, and operational efficiency.
• Own packaging configurations, specifications, and maintenance of the qualified state for commercial products.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, and External Supply to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and inspection readiness.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime, waste, and process variability.
• Support change control activities, including packaging updates, material changes, and process improvements across internal and external sites.
• Provide regular updates to site leadership on performance, key issues, and improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional, network, and external partners to align on standards and share best practices.
• Manage resources and priorities to meet production schedules and business needs.
• Provide technical oversight to external partners and suppliers supporting packaging operations.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The packaging professional we seek will possess these qualifications.

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years of Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Engineering, Materials Science, or Industrial Design experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

What you can expect of us

From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions,
• group medical, dental and vision coverage,
• life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long‑term incentives
• Award-winning time‑off plans
• Flexible work models where possible

Salary Range 148,715.15USD -201,202.85 USD

Sponsorship

Sponsorship Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

Equal Opportunity

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.

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Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen