Amgen Inc. Posted October 14, 2026

Civil Engineer

Thousand Oaks, United States Full time
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About this opportunity

Career Category

Engineering

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.

Civil Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will provide technical leadership and engineering expertise for the planning, design, renovation, and delivery of civil and structural infrastructure supporting facilities, utilities, and capital projects. This role ensures designs are safe, compliant, constructible, reliable, and aligned with operational, business, and site requirements.

The Project Engineer partners with engineering disciplines, architects, project managers, facilities teams, EHS professionals, contractors, and external design firms throughout the project lifecycle. This position requires travel to project sites and organizational locations to support project development, design reviews, field assessments, construction activities, commissioning, and stakeholder engagement.

Serve as the technical lead for civil and structural engineering requirements, design standards, specifications, and project execution.

Develop and review civil and structural design criteria, calculations, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and engineering studies.

Support projects involving site development, grading, drainage, stormwater management, roads, parking areas, underground utilities, foundations, structural steel, concrete, and building modifications.

Evaluate existing site and structural conditions; identify constraints, risks, and required remediation or reinforcement measures.

Review engineering design packages for technical quality, code compliance, constructability, maintainability, safety, and alignment with project requirements.

Coordinate with architectural, mechanical, electrical, process, environmental, and facility engineering disciplines to ensure integrated project solutions.

Lead technical aspects of capital projects from feasibility and concept development through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.

Travel as needed to support site assessments, project meetings, design workshops, construction reviews, inspections, commissioning, and operational-readiness activities.

Provide technical support during construction, including field observations, resolution of design issues, review of contractor submittals, and evaluation of change requests.

Ensure projects comply with applicable building codes, structural standards, civil design requirements, permitting obligations, and environmental regulations.

Support the development and maintenance of civil and structural engineering standards, specifications, guidelines, and standard details.

Identify design risks, recommend practical mitigations, and support risk assessments associated with facility modifications, infrastructure reliability, and site conditions.

Support commissioning and turnover activities to confirm civil and structural systems meet intended-use and operational requirements.

Monitor industry practices, codes, standards, and emerging technologies; incorporate relevant improvements into engineering standards and project delivery practices.

Provide technical mentoring and subject matter support to project teams and less-experienced engineers.

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 leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 2 years of civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related engineering experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related engineering experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 8 years of  civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related engineering experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Professional Engineer (PE) license in civil or structural engineering.

Advanced degree in civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience supporting industrial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research, or other regulated facility environments.

Experience with structural assessments, seismic evaluations, existing-building modifications, and infrastructure renewal projects.

Familiarity with stormwater management, site permitting, geotechnical engineering, and construction-phase engineering support.

Experience with relevant engineering software for structural analysis, civil design, or site-development planning.

What you can expect from 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.

. Salary Range

127,044.40USD -171,883.60 USD

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Manufacturing & CMC
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Thousand Oaks, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Manufacturing & CMC role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 3428 comparable Manufacturing & CMC roles across 175 biopharma companies.

3428Comparable roles tracked
3174Currently active
175Companies hiring similar roles
61Countries represented

Salary context

813 of 3428 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

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Lowest disclosed · Operator – Plant Utilities · Lilly $13/hr – $28/hr (≈ $26,998–$58,302/yr)
Highest disclosed · Head of Analytical Development · ModernaTX, Inc. $272,200/yr – $490,100/yr
Peer group range $42,650 – $381,150 (median $127,400)

Where these roles are based

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United States1570
Germany211
India155
France149
Ireland129
China125

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Seniority mix

1516 of 3428 peers have a known seniority level

Senior408
Manager359
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc208
Associate149
Principal129
Associate Director105
Director104
Senior Director48
Executive/VP6

Therapeutic area mix

22 of 3428 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease13
Rare Disease3
Dermatology & Aesthetics2
Oncology2
Immunology1
Respiratory1

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