Process Instrumentation Engineer - Lilly Medicine Foundry

Eli Lilly and Company • Lebanon, IN

22h • $66,000 - $171,600

About The Position

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. Organization and Position Overview Lilly recently announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. The first-ever facility of its kind, combining research and manufacturing in a single location, the Medicine Foundry will allow Lilly to further develop innovative solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and increase capacity for clinical trial medicines, while also reducing costs and environmental impact. The Process Instrumentation Engineer is a key leader responsible for overseeing all process and utility instrumentation at The Medicine Foundry. This role ensures that all calibration activities are managed in compliance with phase appropriate GMP and other applicable standards. In addition, this role ensures alignment of calibration related programs and initiatives with organizational goals for safety, quality, and efficiency, directly supporting the delivery of novel medicines for clinical trials within The Medicine Foundry. This position will be responsible for developing initial processes and requirements for the LMF site calibration program in alignment with the overall Engineering Technology Center (ETC) corporate standards. This position will also directly collaborate with the Process Engineering team in the preparation and selection of instrumentation for initial operation and overall instrument lifecycle. In addition, this position will work directly with the calibration supervisor and team of instrumentation technicians within the FUME Plant Engineering function in order to ensure critical and non-critical instrumentation is performed in accordance with planned specifications and use cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (prefer ME, MET, EE)
• 5+ years of industrial process instrumentation or calibration experience, FDA regulated industry preferred.
• Strong understanding of process instrumentation calibration, including the following:
• Instrumentation (pressure, temperature, flow, level, pH)
• Electrical test equipment (flukes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc.)
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Nice To Haves

• Previous start up experience for new building and site process instrumentation.
• Previous equipment installation / commissioning / qualification experience.
• Engineering experience with manufacturing plant instrumentation.
• Engineering related project management experience.
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems), U/BMS (Utility/Building Management Systems) and QMS (Quality Management Systems).
• Demonstrated office software skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, UMS, data historian) and collaboration sites.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of cGMP principles.
• Demonstrated high level of understanding of engineering concepts, 1st principles, and engineering functional standards.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Be the SME with a deep technical expertise in all instrumentation and calibration systems.
• Cross function collaboration with Global Facility Delivery (GFD) to support project delivery.
• Support C&Q activities, including but not limited to, initial calibrations, initial/operations verification, and/or equipment qualification.
• Provide field support to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve equipment issues.
• Ensure that the process instrumentation is in control, capable, and compliant to be used in the cGMP process.
• Provide discipline leadership to local projects to ensure proper instrument selection, qualification, documentation, and standardization.
• Make improvement recommendations to instrument calibration practices or instrument shop standards to ensure that measurements are compliant with corporate standards.
• Manage measurement and control equipment obsolescence.
• Perform continuous improvement of our assets spare parts list for accuracy.
• Contribute to incident/deviation investigations on instrumentation and implement countermeasures as appropriate to prevent reoccurrence.
• Own change controls, when applicable, to increase the robustness and reliability of instrumentation.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for 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; and 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: Mid Level