Eli Lilly and Company · 4 hours ago
Sr. Director - Engineering - Lebanon API
Lebanon, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$164K/yr - $240K/yr
10+ years expEli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, focused on discovering and delivering life-changing medicines. The Senior Director Engineering will manage the API Plant engineering function, ensuring it supports the manufacturing plan while providing leadership and technical guidance throughout the startup and operational phases.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Support the safe, on time, and successful startup, process validation, and successful pre approval inspections
Be a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader and support the broader lead team
Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence
Defines the Small Molecule or Peptide engineering priorities & roadmap in order to develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the plant. This includes leveraging existing Lilly knowledge where necessary, but also incorporating external experiences and learning
Serve as a key member of the Plant Lead Team, ensuring cross functional excellence throughout project delivery and startup
Support safe delivery of all aspects of the plant; serve as a key member of the plant HSE governance
Support the project team to deliver the facility as the end user. Providing feedback and support on design decisions, commissioning strategies, startup plan, etc. Collaborate to ensure the right decisions are made to meet project deliverables and longer term strategic goals for the site
Develop and adapt organizational structure to provide correct and capable resources and management to deliver the plant to a full scale GMP manufacturing scale
Ensure the systems are in place and executed to establish the initial qualified and safe state for equipment, processes, utilities and facilities
Build technical relationships with the relevant corporate departments and sponsors strategic corporate initiatives at a plant level
Continue to define and support engineering priorities & roadmap; integrate the functional agenda with plant and site priorities
Ensure the plant is in compliance with corporate standards and policies for the engineering function, including applicable environmental, safety, and quality requirements
Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally
Ensure equipment, processes, utilities and facilities remain and operate in a qualified and safe state
Work with the Site Central Engineering team to ensure that equipment maintenance and utilities operations are performed and documented to the highest standards of safety and quality, and assist with managing the plant investment processes for assets (planning, prioritization, resourcing, project management, capital accounting and reporting), the development and delivery of the capital investment plan in accordance with the plant objectives for new products, recapitalization of assets, and facility modernization
Ensure that a robust control system exists to manage the business, identify compliance issues and escalate issues appropriately is established and maintained
Develop the future management and technical leadership for the plant and for potential global assignments
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
Minimum 10 years of experience in a leadership role managing teams within the pharmaceutical industry
Must possess knowledge and understanding of cGMPs and how they apply to manufacturing operations
Preferred
Experience in API manufacturing including a Process Safety Management program is preferred
Strong ability to form effective relationships at all levels
Demonstrated track record of successfully developing, managing and executing projects from start to finish on time and within budget with high performance standards that ensure customer satisfaction
Experience developing and managing extremely talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures to ensure a safe and successful work environment
Benefits
Company bonus
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
Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
Company
Eli Lilly and Company
We're a medicine company turning science into healing to make life better for people around the world.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.5M2024-02-12Post Ipo Debt· $6.5M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
David Ricks
Chair, CEO
Lucas Montarce
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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