Director Engineering Projects

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.
 

Director Engineering Projects  
 

What you will do
 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will be responsible to provide strategic and operational leadership for the capital project portfolio at Amgen Manufacturing Limited LLC (AML) in Juncos, Puerto Rico, one of Amgen’s largest and most complex biologics manufacturing campuses. This role is responsible for the end-to-end governance, planning, prioritization, and execution of a diverse capital portfolio supporting Drug Substance (DS), Drug Product (DP), Finished Drug Product (FDP), utilities and critical infrastructure, site infrastructure and expansions, and construction safety and contractor management.
 

The Director leads a team of portfolio leads and senior project managers responsible for capital investments ranging from facility upgrades, process equipment installations, GMP renovations and retrofits, utilities capacity improvements, infrastructure modernization, and major manufacturing expansions. The role ensures projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, compliant with GMP requirements and Amgen engineering standards, and aligned with operational readiness objectives.

As a key member of the site engineering leadership team, the Director partners cross-functionally with multiple key areas to define project scope, commissioning and qualification (C&Q) strategies, operational readiness requirements, and long-range capital plans that support strategic site growth and operational reliability.
 

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing strategic oversight and governance of the AML capital portfolio to ensure alignment with site manufacturing strategy and global network priorities.
• Lead portfolio planning, priority setting, sequencing, resource allocation, and performance reviews, including cost, schedule, risk, capacity delivery, and funding optimization.
• Overseeing full project lifecycle execution from concept development and business case through design, procurement, construction, and C&Q.
• Ensuring use of robust project management methodologies, risk management practices, engineering governance frameworks, digital engineering tools, and standardization practices.
• Serving as the site leader for construction safety, ensuring adherence to Amgen EHS standards and regulatory requirements, promoting proactive safety culture, and overseeing contractor selection, coordination, and performance in active manufacturing environments.
• Managing capital budgets, long-range capital plans, business cases, cost estimates, financial controls, forecasting, and capital productivity.
• Driving engineering and operational excellence, including innovation in construction methods, modularization, and advanced manufacturing facility design.
• Leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing capital projects organization focused on safety, quality, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to optimize project outcomes and operational efficiency.

What we expect of you
 

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Director Engineering Projects professional we seek is a collaborative people leader with these qualifications.

Basic qualifications:
 

Doctorate degree in Engineering and 4 years of engineering project management experience

OR

Master’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of engineering project management experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 10 years of engineering project management experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 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.
 

Beyond that, additional preferred qualifications are:

• Extensive experience managing large-scale capital or engineering project portfolios in pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing.
• Deep knowledge of GMP facility design, construction, commissioning, and validation, and experience in biologics drug substance and drug product manufacturing facilities.
• Strong experience leading complex infrastructure projects in operating manufacturing environments, with a strong knowledge of utility systems, clean utilities, infrastructure, and site services, a proven record in construction safety and contractor-intensive projects.
• Experience managing capital portfolios exceeding $100M annually, and strong leadership, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary team leadership skills.
• Fluent in English and Spanish—both written and verbal with a strong communication skills.

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’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental & vision coverage, and life & disability insurance
• 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. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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