Associate Director - Maintenance

Role Summary

The Maintenance Associate Director leads the maintenance and reliability groups within the site engineering organization, ensuring maintenance deliverables are sufficiently resourced and qualified to support Small Molecule, Peptide, and Oligonucleotide production goals. They are directly responsible for developing and maintaining the reliability and maintenance technical programs. During the Lebanon API site's startup (2025–2027), the role will collaborate across functions to build the organization, processes, and culture needed for GMP operations and startup success.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supervising and coaching maintenance supervisors, reliability engineers, and other staff, including completing performance reviews and development planning.
• Provide maintenance work coordination in support of all manufacturing areas and site objectives and provide maintenance input to key functional groups and partners.
• Oversight of maintenance and reliability staffing including recruitment, resource planning, and succession planning.
• Ensure maintenance planning, scheduling, and work completion meet the production and site business needs.
• In coordination with engineering function, set and reinforce standards for maintenance and reliability.
• Identify, track, and report key indicators of functional performance.
• Have oversight of maintenance and reliability related issues and improvement initiatives. Review and approve relevant deviations and change controls.
• Ensure compliance with corporate maintenance and reliability performance expectations (PM execution performance, reliability roadmap, etc). Actively work within the global engineering/Engineering Tech Center network to ensure alignment with corporate initiatives and utilization of best practices.
• Support site governance through participation, influence and leadership in cross functional meetings and initiatives.
• During the startup phase of the Lebanon API site (2025 to 2027), leadership will be expected to be collaborative, inclusive, and supportive of the broader team.
• Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of operational excellence.
• Develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the site, leveraging existing Lilly knowledge and practices where necessary, but also incorporating external experiences and learning.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and operational excellence by supporting lean principles in their respective area.
• Support the project team as they deliver the facility to the site team, by providing feedback and support.

Qualifications

• Required: 3+ years experience in leadership role supporting manufacturing, preferably in API manufacturing
• Preferred: Ability to work with a team, make independent decisions, and influence diverse groups.
• Preferred: Ability to instill teamwork within the department and demonstrate key interpersonal skills.
• Preferred: Ability to provide innovative solutions to plant, divisional, and corporate issues and leverage ideas from other functional areas.
• Preferred: Be a role model for team members in terms of performance and behaviors. Help people improve their performance and close performance gaps with appropriate training, professional development and coaching interventions.

Skills

• Ability to work with a team, make independent decisions, and influence diverse groups.
• Ability to instill teamwork within the department and demonstrate key interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide innovative solutions to plant, divisional, and corporate issues and leverage ideas from other functional areas.
• Be a role model for team members in terms of performance and behaviors. Help people improve their performance and close performance gaps with appropriate training, professional development and coaching interventions.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering preferred)