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Quality

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Senior Associate Quality Control – Microbiology

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will under general supervision, be responsible for one or more of the following activities in Quality Control including analytical testing, characterization, method development, and sample and data management. The Senior Associate Quality Control will be assigned to the second shift and supporting a non-standard shift organization that may include weekends.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Plan and perform multiple, complex routine/ non-routine methods and procedures and a large variety of assays*
• Perform or review one or more of the following: sample management, sample testing, perform environmental monitoring, microbial count by membrane filtration, endotoxin test, solutions preparation, equipment maintenance, and handling of electronic documents.
• Prepare complete, accurate, concise laboratory documentation and participate in laboratory documentation revision process
• Data entry, review, analysis and communication of results
• Perform general lab housekeeping
• Follow safety guidelines, cGMPs and ensures compliance with other regulatory requirements
• May provide technical guidance and train others as necessary
• Report, evaluate, back-up/archive, trend and approve analytical data and laboratory results
• Participate in audits, initiatives and projects that may be departmental or organizational in scope
• Write protocols and perform assay validation and equipment qualification/ verification
• Introduce new techniques to the lab, including method transfers, reports, validations and protocols
• May represent the department/organization on various teams and interact with outside resources
• May act as team leader and support other coworkers when necessary

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Senior Associate Quality Control professional we seek is an individual contributor with these qualifications.

THE BASIC QUALIFICATIONS ARE:

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Quality experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Quality experience

OR

High school diploma and 8 years of Quality experience

BEYOND THAT, THE PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS ARE:

• Educational background in Microbiology, Biology or Life Sciences
• Laboratory experience in a GMP environment within the Pharmaceutical and/or Biotech industry
• Fully bilingual communications skills (English and Spanish)
• Good communications and presentation skills in English and Spanish
• Project management skills
• Strong organizational skills, including ability to follow assignments through to completion
• Enhanced skills in leading, influencing and negotiating
• Knowledge of and experience with processes involved in manufacturing and distribution, QA, QAL, validation and process development
• Basic Knowledge and skills of word processing, presentations, and spreadsheet applications
• Available to support non-standard shift (including 1st, 2nd, 3rd and weekend shifts)

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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