Process Development Senior Associate

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Job description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve togetherresearching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. Its time for a career you can be proud of.

Process Development Senior Associate

Live

What you will do

Lets do this! Lets change the world! Amgen is seeking a Process Development Senior Associate to join the Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies (DST) organization. The Pivotal DST organization is responsible for developing cell culture and purification manufacturing processes for Amgens late-stage pipeline.

Scope of work includes developing cell culture and purification processes for recombinant proteins to improve the production yields, evaluating process robustness through process characterization, transferring processes to manufacturing, and conducting other relevant experiments such as facility fit and raw material evaluation.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a team environment to contribute to drug substance process development.

• Execute mammalian cell culture experiments at different scales in shake flasks and bioreactors.

• Execute purification experiments, mainly filtration and chromatography, at bench and pilot scale as needed.

• Document experimental data in lab notebooks.

• Analyze the data and present to the team.

• Author technical reports and support regulatory filing as needed.

• Contribute to technology development projects to seek continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency.

The candidate will have opportunities to work in cell culture development and purification development to become a well-rounded process development scientist with experience in upstream and downstream.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is an employee with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Process Development experience OR

• Associates degree and 4 years of Process Development experience OR

• Bachelors degree and 2 years of Process Development experience OR

• Masters degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant hands-on lab experience in cell culture or protein purification.

• Attention to details and critical thinking ability.

• Experience in Design of Experiments and statistical analysis is a plus.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Self-motivated and strong organization skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Thrive

What you can expect of us

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

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

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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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