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Amgen Senior Quality Engineer in Hyderabad, India
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. 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 Quality Engineer
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you be accountable to provide Quality oversight of CPO method stewardship, modeling, and material characterization. Accountable to develop and lead a team that provides Quality technical expertise and assessments of compliance to CPOQ CORE and/or to sites. Ensures successful physical method development critical to achieving reliable data, considering impact of risk to patient, global compliance and time to market. Ensures alignment strategies for methods transfer across multiple sites.
Responsibilities:
Co-develop training materials for stability method transfers with CPO
Ensures activities are in line with budget and support evidence-based resource needs
Provides quality oversight of the development, maintenance, transfer and validation of physical methods including sample selection
Provides Quality guidance to CPO activities and results
Quality approval of protocols and technical reports for method development
Provides advice to inform Quality Plan
Provides advice and expertise to inform development of technical training materials for method transfer
Oversight of protocols and requirements to outsource testing to labs
Review/Approve method development, validation, and transfer reports
Robust change controls, CAPAs, and NCs
Successful CPO method stewardship work
Method training materials
Reports to manager CPOQ Core in Thousand Oaks.
Key advisor to Core Technologies Lead
Advisor to Innovation and Development Leads
Advisor to site quality organizations
Advisor to Product Quality Leaders (PQLs)
Collaborate with and/or provide advice to Regulatory to inform submissions
Align with Attribute Sciences where similar networks or governances are established
Collaborate with External Supply Quality to ensure plans in place when receiving methods from a CMO or suppliers
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree OR
Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of quality experience OR
Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of quality experience OR
Diploma and 10 to 12 years of quality experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Deep and broad understanding of quality processes including change control, risk assessment and management, etc.
Familiarity with the characterization and modeling techniques being employed in Combination product development
Ability to work effectively in global multi-functional teams and in a highly matrixed team environment
Strong problem solving, trouble shooting, and analytical skills
Advanced technical writing skills
Constructively progress to outcomes despite uncertainty or ambiguity
Motivate change, efficiency, and strong multi-functional relationships
Ability to drive continuous improvements
Quality and manufacturing experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry
Bachelor’s Degree in a Science Field
Familiarity with force measurement equipment, dimensional analysis, calibration, and lab GLP
Familiar with combination products including applicable guidance, regulations and standards e.g. ISO 14971, ICH Q8, ICH Q9, ICH Q10, ICH Q12, ISO 13485, EU Annex 1, 21 CFR parts 4, 820, 210 and 211Working knowledge of calibration standard ISO 17025
Ability to negotiate a position after taking feedback from multiple sources
Experience driving decision making by using DAI principles
Understanding of industry requirements/expectation Ability to travel +/- 20% of time to domestic and international Amgen site
Experience with Quality Processes and systems such as Trackwise
Experience with quality oversight of device components
History of communicating during inspections and audits
Collaborates and communicates well with others, able to balance divergent inputs from various partners and drive issue resolution
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that deal with 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 competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.
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