Job Position Overview:The Automation Project Lead/Advisor is a senior individual contributor member of Global Process Automation & Control Engineering (GPACE), part of Lilly's Corporate Engineering Technology Center (ETC), with a primary focus on the Parenteral Drug Network (PDN). This role provides technical expertise, program leadership, and discipline stewardship for automation across the Global Parenteral Network, influencing throughout the organization, successfully directing programs involving multiple groups, projects, and locations, and mentoring other engineers in automation engineering capability and career development. GPACE provides automation, measurement, and process control solutions and serves as a technical resource for training, standards, capital project delivery, and Lilly's standard automation platforms; GPACE's primary customers are global manufacturing and development sites, Corporate IT, MQIT, and Global Facilities Delivery (GFD). This role requires demonstrated expertise in Rockwell Automation platforms, OT/IT integration, GMP automation compliance, and project delivery, with particular emphasis on supporting project conceptual stages, leading automation design on major capital projects, optimizing project delivery approaches through replication and best practices, and driving the long-term automation technology and governance strategy for the Global Parenteral Network.
Responsibilities:- Provide enterprise-level technical and discipline leadership for automation across the Global Parenteral Network; set the strategic direction for automation standards, architecture, and technology; own and govern tools, engineering standards, master specifications, and best practices for the PDN automation discipline; lead communities of practice and facilitate shared learning; and provide authoritative direction during project conceptual stages and profiling, ensuring design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non-value-add complexity.
- Lead the design and delivery of automation for complex major capital projects across the Global Parenteral Network, providing authoritative project execution directive and governing the Design Delivery Gate Review process; lead and approve delivery strategies, quality assessments, and CSV and C&Q verification plans; resolve technical issues; and partner with GFD, A&E firms, and outsource partners to ensure successful Automation Project Management structures are in place across the PDN portfolio.
- Successfully direct programs involving multiple groups, projects, and locations across the Global Parenteral Network automation portfolio; provide technical mentoring and career development coaching to engineers at all levels within GPACE, including Automation Engineers, Automation Leads, and Automation Program Leads; ability to resolve the most complex technical and project conflicts among senior stakeholders; champion health and safety, diversity and inclusion, ethics, and compliance; and influence throughout the organization to embed automation best practices and raise the collective capability of the PDN automation engineering community.
- Work safely and continually improve both people and equipment safety; champion health and safety, ethics, and compliance in all activities; coach and mentor others within GPACE and at project sites; and demonstrate the ability to work across multiple cultures and organizations, building strong cross-functional relationships with sites, Corporate Engineering, Tech[redacted], Global Quality, and strategic external partners.
Basic Qualifications:- BS degree in Engineering or related science field
- Minimum 10 years of process automation or process control experience in pharmaceuticals with demonstrated experience in Rockwell Automation platforms
- Experience directing multi-program portfolios across global project and manufacturing teams
- Must be flexible on work location and have the ability to travel both domestically and internationally
Additional Skills/ Preferences:- Experience in Drug Product (Parenteral) manufacturing automation is strongly preferred, including demonstrated expertise across multiple PDN platforms (filling, formulation, freeze drying, cartridge, vial, PFS, equipment preparation) with a track record of leading complex automation programs across the global parenteral network.
- Experience governing the Design Delivery Gate Review process and authorization of delivery strategies, SOWs, and CSV/C&Q verification plans.
- Experience owning automation standards, master specifications, and best practices for a global parenteral manufacturing network, with a demonstrated track record of driving replication, governance, and continuous improvement across the PDN automation portfolio.
- Experience extracting benchmarking information from academia and industry and translating external innovation and technology trends into proof-of-concept demonstrations and strategic direction for the Global Parenteral Network automation program.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical mentoring and career development coaching to automation engineers at multiple career levels (Engineer, Lead, Program Lead), with a track record of raising team capability.
- Certifications: PE, PMP, and/or CAP desired but not required
Additional Information:- Position Location: US: Indianapolis IN Tech Center South
- Travel Percentage (%): 20-50% on average; domestic and international travel required; greater travel time may be expected during design reviews, FATs, and site startup activities across the Global Parenteral Network;
- Shift Information: Standard 8-hour days, Monday through Friday; some allowance for flex time; overtime and some weekend or holiday work may be required for program and project support
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$129,000 - $209,000
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).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly's compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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