Process Improvement Engineer

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Job Description

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us as:

Sr Process Improvement Engineer

At Amgen Breda medicines are labelled, assembled, stored, and eventually shipped to various countries worldwide. Every day more than 1000 people from 38 different nationalities are working on supply chain processes, manufacturing, marketing, and sales of our medicines and clinical research into new medicines.

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What you will do

The team is responsible for the overall process performance of our labeling & packaging lines in Breda. The team monitors the line output and investigates deviating events or trends. As Process Improvement Engineer you will identify improvement opportunities within our shopfloor and supporting processes. In collaboration with other departments, you will create or contribute to business cases for process optimization and new production lines. Furthermore, you will investigate different scenarios for new product introductions, increasing production volumes, and other mid-long-term strategic initiatives.

With your strong analytical skills, you will optimize data collection, monitoring, analysis, and visualization to assess current performance and identify trends. With your broad technical and process knowledge you will support key-decision decision-making for our long-term initiatives and goals to ensure the supply of our medicines to our patients!

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will:

• Apply robust analytical skills to evaluate and interpret data using multiple sources of information (qualitative, quantitative, and trend data).
• Monitor process performance and identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Keep processes in line with ever-changing requirements (quality, safety, technical, or technology) by assessing impact and proposing solutions.
• Interpret stakeholders' need to identify improvement opportunities and use LEAN / Six Sigma to drive them.
• Lead implementation of selected improvement projects and initiatives.
• Utilize advanced data analysis combined with subject matter expertise in operations to assist and guide decision-making by senior management on longer-term initiatives and projects (e.g. new capabilities or capacity improvements).
• Provide training and guidance to change leaders on the shop floor and supporting departments.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The industrial engineer we seek is an analytical person with these qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent due to experience.

• Proven experience in the field of Industrial Engineering, Performance Improvement, and/or Operational Excellence in an Operations / Manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work in a highly regulated business environment (GMP, GDP).
• Experience in optimizing internal value streams and managing projects.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and application of problem-solving (such as Six Sigma or Root Cause Analyses).
• Digital savvy and expert skills in using multiple analytical tools.

• Fluency in English both in oral and written communication.

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What you can expect of us

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. Therefore, Amgen is regularly recognized as a Great Place To Work ©.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization.
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising competitive salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, holiday allowance, and collective health insurance.
• Focus on vitality with an on-site gym, a vitality program, and a restaurant with healthy food.
• Flexible work arrangement with 3 - 4 days a week in the office and days from home.