Engineering Senior Director, Site Expansion

Lilly • Pleasant Prairie, WI

10d • $147,000 - $215,600

About The Position

The Engineering Sr. Director, Site Expansion role is a critical role to ensure we continue to make progress towards our mission and our culture. This role will play a critical role in leading the seamless integration of a large site expansion project into the site commercial operation focusing on op Project delivery and readiness. Deliver engineering support for major expansion project partnering with Lilly Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network. Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of key project milestones to help drive the business and better serve our customers. Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported. Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project. Building engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources. Partner closely with Engineering leader at the site to ensure alignment between ongoing operations and project needs. Drive Operational Excellence and Project Management alignment. Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions and inform stakeholders. Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables. Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work. Monitor the progress on project milestones and collaborate with site project management function ensuring alignment on LKC integrated project schedule and take action to escalate/remove barriers. Support site to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning. Effective Communication. Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment of strategic objectives, planning and execution. Establish and manage documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risks to key stakeholders. Influences senior management, internal and external customers to ensure effective stakeholder management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 10+ Engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site
• Experience from onboarding and/or executing larger capital projects
• Previous facility or area start up experience
• Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group including network and/or global functions
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities

Nice To Haves

• Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
• Previous experience with parenteral engineering/manufacturing
• Previous experience with highly automated equipment
• Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
• Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
• Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release.
• Previous experience with Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs
• Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering support for major expansion project partnering with Lilly Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network
• Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of key project milestones to help drive the business and better serve our customers
• Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported
• Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project
• Building engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources
• Partner closely with Engineering leader at the site to ensure alignment between ongoing operations and project needs
• Drive Operational Excellence and Project Management alignment
• Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions and inform stakeholders
• Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables
• Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work
• Monitor the progress on project milestones and collaborate with site project management function ensuring alignment on LKC integrated project schedule and take action to escalate/remove barriers.
• Support site to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning.
• Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment of strategic objectives, planning and execution
• Establish and manage documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risks to key stakeholders
• Influences senior management, internal and external customers to ensure effective stakeholder management

Benefits

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• company-sponsored 401(k)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
• flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts)
• life insurance and death benefits
• certain time off and leave of absence benefits
• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director