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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.

Sr. Associate Scheduler

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Senior Associate Scheduler is responsible for leading the day-to-day production schedule for Amgen Rhode Island (West Greenwich, RI). This role is part of the Manufacturing team for Product Lifecycle Management for the West Greenwich, Rhode Island manufacturing facilities.

This is a highly visible role across the site with the core responsibility of supporting manufacturing and F&E by delivering a detailed schedule of manufacturing, maintenance, and client activities. This role will also offer the opportunity to propose, participate in, and lead team improvement initiatives to drive improved productivity and scheduling accuracy. Examples of past and upcoming team initiatives include schedule adherence monitoring, VirtECS tool implementation, reporting, scheduling process standardization, and automation, and development and integration of sophisticated scheduling tools (e.g., buffer/media volume and expiry supervising for buffer/media scheduling).

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining the ARI production schedule
• Integrating the ARI client activity schedule (e.g., maintenance, commissioning)
• Leading semi-weekly client meetings to review scheduled client activities (e.g., PMs)
• Lead daily morning meetings to update and communicate the schedule with clients (i.e. manufacturing, facilities, engineering, etc.)
• Off business hour on-call support as needed and regular morning meetings earlier than core hours (e.g. 7:45 am)
• Leading team improvement initiatives to improve productivity and scheduling accuracy

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The dedicated professional we seek is a collaborative with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's Degree OR
• Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of Manufacturing, Scheduling, or Modeling experience OR
• Associate's degree and 6 years of Manufacturing, Scheduling, or Modeling experience OR
• High school diploma/GED and 8 years of Manufacturing, Scheduling, or Modeling experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or above in engineering, math, or science
• Demonstration of strong analytical proficiency
• Ability to work well with teams, open to change and new insights
• Ability to lead meetings, communicate and explain schedule recommendations effectively, and communicate well within a team
• Clear analytical and critical thinking capability under pressure – able to respond to scheduling changes, collect required data, evaluate options, and communicate analysis recommendations to facilitate decision making and make decisions
• Ability to indirectly handle a large cross-functional team of partners and collaborators across a large biotech facility +600 employees
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and error-proofing habits
• Knowledge of facility and manufacturing process within manufacturing and supporting operations
• Knowledge of scheduling tools and associated systems (Werum, VirtECS, MS Project, SAP, PI, Excel)

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that deal with others, we also 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 improve 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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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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