Automation Engineer, Drug Substance - Design & Delivery, Lilly Medicine Foundry

Role Summary

Automation Engineer, Drug Substance - Design & Delivery, Lilly Medicine Foundry

Responsibilities

• Work safely and continually look for improvements to both people and equipment safety.
• Expertise with Automation Technologies – Lead the corporation’s efforts to better engineer automation projects on all platforms.
• Automation/Control Discipline and Technical Leadership – Partner with colleagues to lead the discipline through solution assessment, reuse, and development. Manage tools, engineering standards, master specifications and best practices.
• Automation Design – Provide support to Global Facilities Delivery during project conceptual, basic, and detailed engineering phases. Ensure project design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non-value add complexity. Use replication and best practices to optimize project cost. This role could be either support or leader of Automation deliverables.
• Automation Delivery – Lead or support Automation design and delivery for Lilly’s new manufacturing sites. This includes automation and integration with key IT platforms, process development, and system architectures.
• Project leadership – Lead, direct, and oversee contingent/contract workers for project deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in engineering or a related science field and a minimum of 1 year of Automation experience
• Demonstrated experience with the Emerson DeltaV platform.
• Core knowledge related to ISE S95 and S88 principles.
• Technical leadership experience on automation project delivery

Additional Preferences

• Strong knowledge of Drug Substance manufacturing processes including Batch, strongly preferred
• Experience in pharma or GMP industry strongly preferred
• Experience working with validated systems
• Experience with DeltaV Live
• Experience with other DCS or PLC platforms in addition to DeltaV
• Strong problem-solving skills on automation platforms
• Strong communication skills

Education

• Not specified beyond bachelor’s degree in engineering or related science field

Additional Requirements

• Initial location at Lilly Technology Center, Indianapolis. Permanent location at the new Lilly Medicines Foundry in Lebanon, Indiana.
• Travel: Domestic and some International travel may be required (10%). Opportunities for increased travel (up to 50%) and relocation to sites.