Hybrid Senior Manager – Engineering Projects

at Amgen

• Job title: Senior Manager – Engineering Projects
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,669 - $185,744 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Thousand Oaks, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager Engineering Projects at Amgen, managing global capital planning and continuous improvement initiatives for innovative biopharmaceutical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Global Capital Planning strategy, aligning investment priorities with business strategy, operational risk, and long-term asset needs.
• Partner with ISP(Integrated Service Provider).
• Embed Total Asset Care and asset lifecycle management principles into capital planning and prioritization.
• Ensure capital investments reflect reliability strategy, asset health, obsolescence risk, and maintenance maturity.
• Partner with Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliability Engineering, Project Controls and Operations to align lifecycle projects with performance and risk reduction outcomes.
• Lead development, implementation and governance of expanded GLAM(Global Lifecycle Asset Management) scope
• Partner with Site/Functional Engineering leaders to ensure capital plans are integrated, defensible, and execution ready.
• Coach and influence project managers and engineering leaders to improve delivery capability and alignment to standards.
• Develop and maintain forecasting models for multi-year capital demand, cash flow, resource capacity, and portfolio risk.
• Use business analytics to evaluate lifecycle costs, reliability risk, and value realization.
• Provide executive-level insights and recommendations on capital allocation, trade-offs, and portfolio optimization.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that increase capital efficiency, shorten cycle times, improve predictability, and elevate project execution maturity.
• Drive cross-site consistency while enabling flexibility for site-specific needs.
• Identify and lead implementation opportunities across capital planning (e.g. AI, risk signals, schedule/cost intelligence, automated reporting, portfolio insights).
• Partner with IT/Data teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure adoption through organizational change and training.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Engineering and/or Project Management experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of Engineering and/or Project Management experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Engineering and/or Project Management experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of Engineering and/or Project Management experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Engineering and/or Project Management experience
• Demonstrated experience developing multi-year capital plans and forecasting capital demand and cash flow.
• Strong business analytics capability (e.g., financial modeling, portfolio analysis, KPI/dashboards, scenario planning).
• Technical strength with demonstrated experience implementing digital solutions in planning, project management, or operations.
• Experience with Total Asset Care, asset lifecycle management, reliability engineering, or asset health-based investment planning.
• Proven ability to influence multi-functionally and lead through ambiguity across global partners.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) or formal continuous improvement training and implementation.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments (biopharma, pharma, medical devices, chemical, or equivalent).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to tactfully negotiate and positively influence peers and executive leadership
• Effective oral, visual and written communication skills with the ability to listen effectively
• Resilience and flexibility with the ability to react to changes quickly, and the ability to apply knowledge to new problems and new contexts.

Benefits

• 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
• 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.