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Associate Maintenance Technician ARI

Job Description

Job Title: Associate Maintenance Technician

Function: F&E

Location: Rhode Isla

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.

Associate Maintenance Technician

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will report to A-Shift F&E Manager. The Associate Technician is responsible for maintaining systems and performing various maintenance activities throughout the ARI site.

Rotating shift 7AM – 7PM

• Perform scheduled preventive and corrective maintenance and repair activities on equipment and systems used across the ARI site
• Troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems
• Ensure activities are accomplished in a safe manner and with quality
• Strict adherence to Standard Operating Procedures and cGMPs
• Work in a highly productive and efficient manner to increase the quantity of activities completed
• Ensure work is appropriately communicated to system operators and key partners
• Ensure work order documentation is completed accurately and completely
• Identify waste, workflow interrupters, and other opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and assisting with implementation
• Identify opportunities to learn new skills and actively participate in development that will improve overall team performance
• Provide support when required - this may be outside of normal working hours including nights, weekends and holidays

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintenance activities are performed safely
• Maintenance activities are completed right the first time
• Maintenance activities are performed in timely manner
• Maintenance activities are carried out per applicable procedures
• Issues and opportunities that are observed are reported in a timely manner

Measurement of Key Responsibilities:

• No lost time injuries or near miss incidents for me
• Minimal rework for maintenance activities performed
• Labor hours expended are appropriate for job
• All activities are completed per procedure
• All observed issues are reported in a timely manner

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The highly motivated professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications:

• Associate’s degree OR
• High school diploma / GED and 2 years of Operations or Manufacturing experience OR
• Certification that is directly related to the role and 2 years of Operations or Manufacturing experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to interact constructively with peers/teams
• Strong computer skills
• Ability to provide guidance and technical advice to others

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 increase 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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Job Description:

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

The Rhode Island site is a multi-product, flexible manufacturing site.  We’re looking for highly motivated individuals that aspire to be future leaders as we continue this journey and expand our site operations. 

Reporting to A-Shift F&E Manager, the Associate Technician is responsible for maintaining systems and performing various maintenance activities throughout the ARI site. The position is on a Rotating shift 7AM – 7PM

Under direct supervision duties include:

• Perform scheduled preventive and corrective maintenance and repair activities on equipment and systems used across the ARI site
• Troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems
• Ensure activities are accomplished in a safe manner and with quality
• Strict adherence to Standard Operating Procedures and cGMPs
• Work in a highly productive and efficient manner to maximize the quantity of activities completed
• Ensure work is appropriately communicated to system operators and key stakeholders
• Ensure work order documentation is completed accurately and completely
• Identify waste, workflow interrupters, and other opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and assisting with implementation
• Identify opportunities to learn new skills and actively participate in development that will improve overall team performance
• Provide support when required - this may be outside of normal working hours including nights, weekends and holidays

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintenance activities are executed safely
• Maintenance activities are executed right the first time
• Maintenance activities are executed in timely manner
• Maintenance activities are executed per applicable procedures
• Issues and opportunities that are observed are reported in a timely manner

Measurement of Key Responsibilities:

• No lost time injuries or near miss incidents for me
• Minimal rework for maintenance activities executed by me
• Labor hours expended are appropriate for job
• All activities are completed per procedure
• All observed issues are reported in a timely manner

Basic Qualifications

Associates degree and 2 years of Maintenance experience

OR

2 years in a technical school setting with hands-on experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 4 years of Maintenance experience

Preferred Qualifications

Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

Ability to interact constructively with peers/teams

Strong computer skills

Ability to provide guidance and technical advice to others

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