The posting
Career Category
Project Management
Job Description
Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients
At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.
Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. 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.
SENIOR MANAGER PROJECT CONTROLS
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be accountable for managing, forecasting, and tracking costs, schedules, estimates and risks on a portfolio of capital projects at Amgen’s site located in New Albany, Ohio. This position is also partnered with all internal cross functional groups that support capital projects, including Engineering Technical Authority, Project Management, Facilities Management, Global Site Engineering, Capital Finance, and various Amgen internal business partners. The candidate should have the experience and ability to develop, train, and manage a team of cost managers and schedulers through partnership with our outside service providers.
Role Location:
The Project Controls Senior Manager is required to be local and work onsite at Amgen’s site in New Albany, Ohio.
- The Project Controls Senior Manager will be responsible for the following to support multiple, projects within their specific portfolio in key business areas: -
- Managing project controls from funding through close out, including compliance to processes and policies.
- Assisting Project Controls Director in developing project strategies and associated financing
- Working closely with the Front-End Planning team to develop conceptual estimates and schedules.
- Developing strategies and negotiating pricing for subcontractor scopes of work, reviewing, and analyzing engineer/contractor bids with GSS
- Monitoring and evaluating engineering and contractors’ physical progress.
- Addressing progress and delay claims from contractors
- Analysis and accurate review of engineering / construction cost forecasts against scope
- Reviewing and approving engineer and contractor buy outs, change orders and invoices.
- Preparing monthly cost reports and project status reports for senior management both on site and corporately.
- Lead the development, monitoring and reporting of project schedules and cash flow to enable accurate capital LE predication for their portfolio.
- Leading risk analysis reviews for cost estimates, forecasts and schedules using applicable software packages.
- Working with Amgen Buying Centre and Accounts Payable to resolve invoice payment issues and queries.
- Overseeing the closeout of contracts, purchase orders and subsequent projects within their portfolio.
- Monitoring and managing Capitalized Overhead across all projects and sites including planning, hiring, and charging processes.
- Exhibiting proactive safety leadership and behavior
- Communicating on and escalating on project matters and/or project controls performance for their portfolio to Site Sponsors and Engineering leadership
- Overseeing their portfolio’s project controls effectiveness and compliance utilizing strong analytical views to lead the project teams to ensure proper evaluation and analysis.
- Supporting Engineering Digital Transformation activities/workstreams by providing project controls subject matter expertise
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
- High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery
- experience OR
- Associate’s degree and 10 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery
- experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR
- Master’s degree and 4 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience OR
- Doctorate degree and 2 years of Engineering and capital projects delivery experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in capital project delivery. managing Engineering or Construction in project controls across estimating, cost control, scheduling, and compliance
- 8 or more years within engineering or construction experience in the life sciences pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry executing project controls on projects (Funding, Estimating, Cost Management, Scheduling, Compliance, Contract Strategy)
- Strong analytic and problem-solving ability
- Excellent organizational and task management skills
- Effective communication skills and ability to translate / communicate details summarized to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to operate in a matrixed or team environment with site, functional, and executive leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and build strong relationships across the network.
- Expertise and knowledge leading project controls internally and across external vendors
- Understanding the business aspects of projects to provide solutions to problems that require ingenuity and creativity.
- Experience in progress measurement methods such as Earned Value Management
- Experience in cost and scheduling software packages and data mining programs such as Power Bi
- Understanding workflows and dimensions of BIM and opportunities for integration with cost and schedule when managing capital projects
- Experience of procurement methods and contracts
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.
Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.
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Application deadline
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Salary Range
143,098.35USD -193,603.65 USD
