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Associate Scientist – PKMD – Lab Operations Full-time NEW
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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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
Associate Scientist – PKMD – Lab Operations
What You Will Do
Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for ensuring that laboratory equipment, computerized systems, and associated processes remain compliant, fit for intended use, and inspection-ready throughout their lifecycle. The role provides validation leadership and support for GxP-regulated systems and equipment, including planning, risk assessment, change control, testing, documentation, implementation, maintenance, and retirement activities.
This position partners with system owners, laboratory scientists, IT, automation, Quality, Data Integrity, and external vendors to maintain regulatory compliance and data integrity in alignment with 21 CFR Part 58 and Part 11 requirements. The Associate Scientist also supports equipment setup and assists scientific staff with compliant data generation, quality control, user access, reporting, and SOP adherence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and support validation activities for computerized systems, laboratory software, and GxP-regulated applications.
- Develop validation strategies using risk-based validation principles.
- Author, review, and maintain validation deliverables including: Validation Plans (VPR), Risk Assessments, Requirements Specifications, Qualification Protocols, Traceability Matrices, Validation Summary Reports (VSR).
- Coordinate and execute qualification and validation testing activities.
- Ensure systems maintain a validated state throughout their lifecycle.
- Lead validation assessments for equipment and system changes.
- Evaluate software upgrades, patches, configuration changes, and system enhancements.
- Participate in system implementation, expansion, relocation, and decommissioning activities.
- Support periodic reviews and lifecycle documentation maintenance.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, including GxP requirements and electronic records controls.
- Support audit readiness and regulatory inspections.
- Review system security, user access controls, audit trail functionality, and data integrity controls.
- Investigate and document validation exceptions, deviations, and corrective actions.
- Partner with laboratory operations, system owners, SMEs, IT, automation, quality, and vendors.
- Facilitate validation kickoff meetings, testing coordination, and issue resolution.
- Provide validation guidance for new technologies, laboratory instruments, and business processes.
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning for regulated systems.
- Maintain complete and accurate validation documentation in approved quality systems.
- Develop and update validation procedures, work instructions, and templates.
- Train users and stakeholders in validation processes and change control requirements.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency while maintaining compliance.
What We Expect Of You
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Associate Scientist we seek is a researcher with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Master's degree and 1 year of laboratory experience OR Bachelor's degree and 3 years of laboratory experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience supporting equipment, quality, laboratory operations, information systems, or regulated environments.
- Experience with computerized system validation and lifecycle management.
- Experience working in GLP, GCP, or other regulated environments.
- Experience supporting laboratory instruments, data systems, or automation platforms preferred.
- Strong understanding of validation methodologies.
- Knowledge of risk-based validation approaches.
- Familiarity with validation documentation, traceability, testing, and change control.
- Understanding of data integrity principles and regulated system requirements.
- Excellent technical writing and documentation skills.
- Strong organizational, communication, and project coordination abilities.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple functions and priorities.
What You Can Expect Of Us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of 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.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
- 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, and 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. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.