Senior Principal Engineer - Automation Engineering – Process, Lab & Enterprise Systems Integration-Lilly Medicine Foundry

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

7d • $66,000 - $171,600 • Onsite

About The Position

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.
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.

Requirements

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering or Science and experience in Automation Engineering, preferably in major Pharmaceutical manufacturing handling Laboratory and Analytical systems and equipment, and Systems Integration and a minimum of 8+ years working experience in Biopharma engineering, operations, or manufacturing.
• Experience in commissioning, qualifying and supporting analytical and automation-controlled lab equipment such as cell counters, UHPLC/chromatography systems, mass spectrometers, single-use bioreactors, RX-10 lab reactor control systems, and Rockwell PLC-controlled autoclaves/parts washers.
• 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 and 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.
• Demonstrated initiative, good planning and organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, commitment to task completion and timelines.
• Possess a keen technical curiosity and has demonstrated strong problem-solving skills and a desire for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to influence peers and business partners.
• Good written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of GMP, regulatory requirements, computer system validation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in design, development, commissioning and qualification of highly automated greenfield manufacturing sites utilizing SCADA, DCS, MES, LIMS and Site Historian systems (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade, LabVantage, OSI PI).
• Experience in facilitating and driving decision-making at an organizational level.

Responsibilities

• Provide automation support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects.
• Provide automation support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects.
• Ensure that reliable and compliant control applications and systems are used in the manufacturing at Foundry.
• Act as a key technical expert with partners to influence and implement within the process control organization and across functional disciplines to support the process control technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance objectives.
• Support the project delivery, build a new organization, develop and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations, and build the site culture.
• Provide administration and configuration support for the process PLC equipment serving the Lab/Admin building.
• Manage the integration from analytical systems into PLC equipment and handle recipe setup and maintenance.
• Mentor process control team, including design, controls philosophy, implementation and commissioning.
• Process control work implementation and coordination.
• Develop and implement the Automation Engineering Project Plan.
• Technically lead and oversee the work of Site Area leads and System Integrator including Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, DCS Application Software, Test Specifications.
• Lead/Participate in design reviews, attend equipment and software FATs.
• Own the site-wide administration strategy for Laboratory and Analytical equipment, including user access, data management and integration to PI and other repositories/DCS, and backup/restore; supervise third-party execution of analytical system implementation and set configuration standards.
• Partner with tech@Lilly on Empower, LIMS (LabVantage), MES and ELN integration touchpoints and provide design input.
• Lead and mentor the Analytical Systems Support Engineers and Associate Engineer supporting this function.
• Lead a team of automation engineers supporting commissioning.
• Provide periodic status updates to Project Management.
• Devise functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems in collaboration with Process Engineering.
• DCS software design, coding/configuration and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software etc.).
• Automation Engineering including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops.
• Implement and support electronic systems (such as plant historians) used to capture process automation related production data.
• Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards including the development and execution of validation strategies and associated documentation.
• Provide automation support for capital projects including new product introductions.
• Promote the use of automation to improve productivity, operational efficiency and compliance.
• Develop a 'network' of corporate contacts and leverage corporate expertise when needed.
• Set and reinforce standards for appropriate rigor in automation work products in coordination with automation and compliance consultants.

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: Senior