Engineer - Program Lead - Reliability

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 64,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Reliability Engineer to enhance the maintenance and optimization of process equipment. This role involves developing strategies to ensure reliable operations, mentoring team members, and collaborating with various departments to minimize downtime. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving abilities and a solid engineering background. Join a dedicated team committed to improving healthcare outcomes and making a real difference in the lives of patients. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead initiatives that enhance operational efficiency while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in using FMEA and RCA processes is essential.
• Strong computer skills and ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Support maintenance and reliability of process equipment.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies to optimize efficiency.

Skills

FMEA

RCA

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

4+ years' experience in reliability

Tools

Microsoft Office

CMMS system

Job description

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.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $167,200.

Position Brand Description:

Provides support for the maintenance, reliability, and optimization of process and utility equipment across Indianapolis Device Assembly and Packaging (IDAP) to ensure a reliable and compliant supply of medicine to our patients. This individual will establish and guide the site’s reliability strategy. Additionally, the individual will work closely with all levels of operations, maintenance, engineering, and quality to identify, prioritize, and analyze critical equipment downtime, develop / adjust maintenance plans, and leverage process and equipment metrics to solve equipment reliability and maintenance problems. Field support may be required to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve equipment issues. The engineer may be required to perform unique component and system analyses to identify reliability improvements and risk reduction improvements through design modifications and/or various reliability improvement strategies. This individual will be a key member of engineering leadership team and mentor engineers in the advancement of functional capabilities and may have one or more direct report(s).

Key Objectives / Deliverables:

• Provides oversight and stewardship of site reliability processes.
• Develops, mentors, coaches, and recognizes employees within their organization.
• Develops, mentors, and coaches engineers, mechanics, and technical leaders across the organization.
• Promotes problem solving methodology and data driven analysis.
• Collaborates and supports engineering with design, development, and implementation of maintenance strategies to operate safely, in compliance (HSE & GMP), and to optimize cost, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Supports process engineers, technicians, and others, to implement recommended actions as developed in the maintenance strategies.
• Supports process engineers in the collection, compilation, and interpretation of data from various sources to determine the significant contributors to manufacturing downtime.
• Implements resolutions to manufacturing downtime with business systems that may not exist or are inadequate.
• Leverages and supports leaders, engineers, technicians, and crafts persons, to implement solutions to identified manufacturing downtime.
• Performs structured problem solving independently or through facilitation with other engineers, technicians, crafts people, and operators.
• Communicates to various levels of the organization the interpretation of manufacturing data, the recommendations of problem solving and the results.
• Understands the manufacturing equipment and processes and the impact of equipment performance within the manufacturing system.
• Educates and promotes proper use of the CMMS system and ALCOA+ principles for developing maintenance strategies, maintenance execution, and documenting equipment history.
• Audits, ensures compliance, and promotes CMMS data accuracy and structure.
• Supports engineering for the selection and installation of equipment for maintainability and equipment availability as well as spare parts identification and stocking strategy.
• Develops component health assessment strategies or maintenance strategies with the process engineers, technicians, operators, and crafts persons for the various process systems.
• Ensures correct application of predictive maintenance technologies across site.
• Assists the maintenance organization by improving the efficiency of the work management system.
• Supports process engineers in determining sensible data collection to determine equipment performance.
• Supports process engineers in determining causes of performance degradation of equipment as required.
• Utilizes appropriate techniques and tools (RCA, RCM analysis, failure analysis, etc.) to investigate and reduce equipment-related deviations.
• Provides training necessary for development of technical support personnel (Precision Maintenance, Failure Analysis, etc.).
• Ensures a safe working environment by following safety rules and helping improve the safety culture.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience using and directing the use of FMEA and RCA processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently without close supervision.
• Adequate interpersonal and communications skills to be able to work effectively in a team-based environment.
• Strong computer skills in a variety of software packages (Microsoft Office, etc.).
• Ability to work in a safe manner to ensure the safety of self and others.
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field or 4+ years' experience in the reliability field.

Other Information:

• 8-hour days, after-hour support.
• Occasional travel may be required for training, conferences, capital projects, etc.