Join our team at AMGEN Capability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™ (201–500 employees' category) in Portugal in 2024 by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over 500 talented individuals from more than 40 nationalities, our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation, excellence, and inspiration. This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation, supporting our mission To Serve Patients.
Environmental Sustainability Engineer
At AMGEN, Technology isn’t just a support function—it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters?
LIVE
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Environmental Sustainability is an evolving space, with increasing market and regulatory requirements for data-driven action and reporting. In this role, you will build and manage sustainability data collection, analysis and reporting to support global environmental sustainability reporting and decision-making, with an emphasis on life cycle assessment (LCA), product carbon footprint (PCF), supplier engagement, scalable digital solutions, and general environmental sustainability program growth.
This role will help ensure continued compliance with environmental sustainability regulations and alignment with market needs, while maintaining the accuracy, traceability, and usability of sustainability data across the enterprise and the value chain.
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:
Perform and interpret life cycle assessments (LCA) and product carbon foot printing, including defining system boundaries, collecting inventory data, running models, and translating results into actionable insights.
Analyze existing LCA methodologies for compliance with international standards (e.g., ISO 14040/14044) and country-specific regulations.
Collect sustainability data across sites and functions (e.g., energy, water, waste, materials, compliance), including defining data requirements, templates, and governance to ensure data quality, completeness, and auditability.
Work together with our Information Systems SME`s to develop, maintain, and automate sustainability datasets and workflows using programming and analytics tools (e.g., Python, R, SQL), improving efficiency and reducing manual effort.
Create and maintain dashboards, metrics, and reporting packs (e.g., Power BI/Tableau/Excel) to support internal decision-making and external disclosures and customer requests
Support environmental/climate risk assessment tools and workflows (e.g., data inputs, methodology documentation, scenario assumptions), ensuring traceable calculations and readiness for internal review and external assurance.
Engage suppliers and procurement partners to collect primary sustainability data and improve data transparency for product-level reporting.
Implement data validation, controls, and documentation to support internal review and external assurance; investigate anomalies and drive corrective actions with data owners.
Support environmental sustainability compliance project management (e.g., regulatory readiness assessments, data-gap closure, audit/assurance support), including scope, timeline, stakeholder alignment, and delivery tracking.
Scan the external landscape (regulations, standards, customer requirements, and market trends) to identify emerging environmental sustainability needs; recommend and optimize roadmaps, metrics, and data strategies to support market expectations
Represent Amgen as the subject matter expert, participate in external forums and working groups
Assist in the development of new environmental sustainability program elements and initiatives.
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WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The Environmental Sustainability Engineer is a team player with these qualifications.
Preferred Skills
Passion for environmental sustainability with a strong interest in data, analytics, and digital solutions.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in environmental engineering/science, sustainability, data science/analytics, chemical engineering, or a related discipline.
Strong collaboration skills in a diverse, cross-functional environment, including the ability to work effectively with procurement and external suppliers.
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and experience working with large datasets, data quality checks, and traceable calculations.
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data and LCA results into clear messages for technical and non-technical audiences.
Stakeholder and supplier engagement skills, including influencing and driving timely data collection.
Programming and data skills (e.g., Python, R, SQL) and strong proficiency with Excel; experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is a plus.
Knowledge of life cycle assessment and carbon accounting concepts; familiarity with LCA standards (e.g., ISO 14040/14044) and/or LCA tools is a plus.
Fluency in English, both in written and oral communication.
Project management and requirements-gathering skills to deliver repeatable data products (datasets, dashboards, calculations) on time.
Experience with ESG/sustainability reporting concepts and frameworks and the underlying data needed for disclosures (including value-chain and supplier data).
Basic Qualifications
Doctorate Degree or Master’s degree or Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience in Environmental Sustainability OR related field
THRIVE
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF US
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also care deeply for our teammates’ well-being and growth.
Work That Matters – Build tech that accelerates scientific breakthroughs and helps patients worldwide.
Modern Tech Stack – Cloud-first, automation-focused, AI-powered.
Global Scale, Agile Mindset – Collaborate across continents while working in nimble, high-impact teams.
Continuous Learning – Access to certifications, trainings, mentorship, and career mobility.
AMGEN Total Rewards Plan – Comprehensive benefits in healthcare, finance, and well-being.
Flexibility – Hybrid work model with time split between our Lisbon office and remote work.
Join us in our mission to serve patients.
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
AMGEN is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
