Sr Principal Engineer - MES Systems

Lilly • Richmond, VA

4d • $126,000 - $184,800 • Onsite

About The Position

This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing over $50 Billion to create new Manufacturing Capacity throughout the world. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and start up new sites. The Sr Principal Engineer - MES System will part of one of our new state of the art API facility MES team tasked with developing standard approaches and components that will used to build MES recipes and integration throughout Lilly’s network of new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) sites. The role will assist local teams in the Design, Development, Delivery and CSV of the MES solutions for the new facilities. This role will report to the MQ IT Leader for new facilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, or related technical field,
• 10+ years of strong experience with MES system implementations and Data Integration preferably Syncade/Delta V MES
• Professional experience working in a GXP, regulated environment
• Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.).
• Occasional extended hour and / or off-hour work may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (cGMP)
• Effective people and team leadership skills
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple concurrent activities and adapt to changes in priorities.
• Ability to cross functionally collaborate.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrate creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Knowledge of cloud solutions and architecture
• History of promoting safety and maintaining a safe work environment
• Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards.
• Demonstrated adhere adherence to compliance for internal and external quality guidance.
• Demonstrated and promote Operational Excellence
• Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education
• Evaluate and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to problem solving and work through manufacturing situations.
• Have experience serving as an escalation contact with vendor(s)
• Proven technical ability to develop and integrate MES solutions

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate MES common and site-specific components.
• Benchmark on innovative solutions (external and internal to Lilly)
• Dynamically adapt road map to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues.
• Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards.
• Support MES solutions start up activities.
• Work with site resources towards replication & standardization to drive value and implement the appropriate technical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and implications to existing Lilly footprint.
• Maintain open communication with MES vendor(s) to address needs in standard solution or via functional packs.
• Evaluate and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure project and/or validation documentation is maintained during lifecycle & release management.
• Develops \ assists in the creation and maintenance of the MES interfaces with other Lilly systems.

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: Principal