Principal Reliability Engineer - ADN RAMP Team

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 64,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Engineer to join their rapidly expanding team focused on manufacturing excellence. In this dynamic role, you will support the startup of new facilities, ensuring safe and efficient operations while developing the technical capabilities of local teams. This opportunity offers the chance to work on innovative projects that directly impact patient care. If you are passionate about engineering and want to make a difference in the healthcare sector, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing is preferred.
• Deep technical interest in facility and process equipment is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide reliability engineering support for safe facility start-up.
• Coach local technical teams to enhance operational excellence.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

Coaching Skills

Education

BS degree in Engineering

Related Science Field

Tools

CMMS (GMARS)

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:

The Lilly API/Dry Product Network is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for new products, and several new greenfield sites are under construction and will be starting up in the coming years. The new sites are staffed based on full-scale, steady state production, however additional surge capacity is needed to support the site start-up and help quickly ramp to full capacity rates.

The Engineer - ADN RAMP (Rapid Access to Medicines for Patients) team is a cross-functional team that will bring deep manufacturing expertise and will support each site start-up through Operational Excellence knowledge, rapid troubleshooting and problem-solving capability, and surge capacity resources. This unique opportunity will enable team members to work at our new sites, create a larger Lilly network, build and use their technical skills, and learn leadership skills through formal training and on-the-ground experiences. This team will also build strategies to help other new Lilly sites to start up faster, helping to accelerate Lilly’s vision of serving more patients.

Success in this challenging role will require supporting the sites through startup through direct technical execution, coaching next employees, and strong collaboration – and development of the local technical and operational teams to be ready for full operation.

The team will directly report through their respective functions but will be coordinated by the Ramp Team Sr. Director.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Provide reliability engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery team and the Site Engineering team, with a strong focus on safe, right first-time delivery and on-time facility start-up, through application of engineering fundamentals.
• Partner with the site engineering team to provide additional capacity for tasks including but not limited to: operational readiness, C&Q support, on-floor process support, document reviews, deviation investigation, change controls, with a focus on asset delivery details (e.g. maintenance packages, maintenance strategies).
• Coach and develop local technical team capabilities to support acceleration of operational excellence and technical skills.
• Utilize root cause analysis techniques to investigate system and equipment issues and deliver robust and sustainable corrective and preventative actions.
• Monitor, assess, and document equipment performance to maintain ongoing qualification of assets.
• Maintain the basis of safety for facility and utilities equipment and systems.
• Assist in long-term asset management deliverables including maintenance plans, troubleshooting guides, condition monitoring equipment application/installation, and ongoing monitoring plans for these types of equipment and systems.

Basic Requirements:

• BS degree in Engineering or related science field.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience required, preferably in pharmaceutical API/Dry Products Manufacturing.
• Deep technical interest and understanding facility, utility, and process equipment and systems.
• Deep technical interest and understanding in manufacturing operational excellence principles.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Technical knowledge of utility generating equipment such as boilers, chillers, towers air compressors, HVAC units, hot water skids, pumping systems, and other types of rotating equipment.
• Technical knowledge of fluid system fundamentals such as pumping, pressure control, flow control, and associated monitoring instrumentation.
• Ability to navigate CMMS (GMARS) to facilitate asset implementation.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative skills with operations, QA, other engineering groups and team members.
• Ability to coach others.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to clarify and simplify complex issues.
• Strong trust building with peers and leaders.
• Willing to work off-shift hours as needed to support project milestones and training of new employees.

Other Information:

The ADN RAMP team will support multiple new API/Dry Products sites in various locations (US and OUS). Significant travel may be required to current startup sites in order to meet business needs, along with potential short-term assignments across the network (can include international relocations). Candidates must be mobile and flexible.