Eli Lilly

Sr Director - Engineering

Eli Lilly$163K — $239K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
  • Experience in manufacturing site engineering necessary.
  • Prior management experience leading cross-functional teams preferred.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills essential.
  • Technical aptitude with mentoring capability needed.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and ensure operational excellence at the Concord site.
  • Develop and implement safety and quality leadership initiatives.
  • Build a diverse engineering organization focused on talent management.
  • Deliver strategic engineering objectives aligned with business goals.
  • Engage in significant capital and technology project delivery.
  • Establish metrics to evaluate performance against objectives.
  • Champion continuous improvement methodologies like RCA and FMEA.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for a company-sponsored 401(k) and pension plan.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits offered.
  • Flexible spending accounts available for healthcare and dependent care.
  • Generous vacation and leave of absence policies.
  • Well-being benefits including fitness programs and employee assistance services.
Full Job Description
Position Description:

The Engineering Sr. Director is responsible for providing leadership to the Engineering function for the Lilly Concord site. This includes facilities, utilities, maintenance as well as process engineering, automation, and capital project delivery. Additional responsibility includes establishing and implementing the organization's functional agenda in alignment with the business and strategic plan priorities. The Engineering Sr. Director is a member of the Concord Site Lead Team.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:
  • Active member of the Concord Site Lead Team ensuring safety, quality, and operational excellence.
  • Provide Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) and Quality leadership for the Engineering team.
  • Support Site Leadership to build a diverse and capable site organization based in engineering first principles. Talent management, development, and retention within the Concord organization (and beyond).
  • Provide site engineering leadership and develop objectives to deliver Business and Strategic Plan Goals as it relates to safety, quality, and equipment/process effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Represent engineering capabilities beyond the Lilly Concord site (e.g. other Lilly sites and global functional groups).
  • Partner with Technical Services, Quality and Operations leadership to deliver operational results.
  • Actively engage team and deliver significant capital and technological projects.
  • Deliver equipment, lines, and supporting systems through user requirements, design, build, commissioning, qualification, validation, and subsequent operation.
  • Develop local processes and procedures for the Engineering function
  • Ensure the function is aligned and driven to meet production throughput goals including daily operation of the manufacturing lines, deviation and change management, variability reduction, and equipment/system reliability.
  • Champion continuous improvement.
  • Develop and maintain metrics to measure performance against business objectives and make necessary changes to improve performance.
  • Participate in the development and implementation of strategies associated with the area sponsoring or supporting the following initiatives: Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Failure Modes Effect Analysis (FMEA).
  • This role has direct interaction with Regulatory Agencies during site inspections.
  • Understand and influence the manufacturing control strategy for formulation, filling, assembly, and packaging.


Requirements (Education, Experience, Training):
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • Engineering experience in manufacturing site
  • Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities


Preferred attributes but not required:
  • Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
  • Previous facility or area start up experience
  • Previous experience in engineering
  • Previous experience with highly automated equipment
  • Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
  • Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
  • Previous experience with deviation and change management systems.


Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$163,500 - $239,800

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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ICOS Corporation is a biotechnology company that engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic products. It is engaged in the commercialization of treatments for unmet medical conditions, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension, cancer, and inflammatory diseases. It is the developer of a treatment known as Cialis (tadalafil), a product for the treatment of erectile dysfunction through its joint venture with Eli Lilly and Company in North America and Europe. It is also engaged in contract manufacturing services for third parties. It is in a strategic alliance with Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ICOS Corporation was established in 1989, based in Bothell, Washington. It is currently operated by Eli Lilly and Company.

Eli Lilly Careers

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35,000 employees
Market Cap
$344.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$6.1 billion
Founded
1876
5 Year Trend
+5.9%
Revenue
$24.5 billion
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