Engineer - Automation Engineering – Biologics- Lilly Medicine Foundry

Engineer – Automation Engineering (Eli Lilly, Foundry)

Responsibilities/Key Objectives
- Provide automation support for operating areas and/or capital projects across site.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust control systems and instrumentation, support business priorities, and meet compliance objectives.
- Support project delivery and startup (2025–2028), including building systems/processes to support GMP operations and site culture.
- Deliver site operations runtime support; enhance control system reliability and lifecycle management in a GMP environment.
- Participate in design reviews/site control system reviews; attend/support FATs.
- Tune and troubleshoot control loops and Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs).
- Understand P&IDs/instrument loop drawings and process control communication protocols.
- Develop/review functional requirements, design specifications, and test specifications.
- Maintain validated control system state, including validation strategies and documentation.

Operational Excellence
- On-call support for operations as needed.
- Resolve complex control-system technical challenges; use master maintenance plans.
- Experience with DeltaV DCS, batch process automation; Rockwell Allen-Bradley PLCs and FactoryTalk View.
- Perform automation engineering activities including design, development, and commissioning.
- Provide periodic status updates; support electronic systems (e.g., plant historians).

Qualifications
- BS in Engineering (or related), plus 2+ years automation engineering/operations/manufacturing (preferably biologics).
- Authorized to work in the United States full-time; no sponsorship.

Preferred
- Greenfield automated manufacturing experience using SCADA/DCS/PLC/MES (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade, etc.)

Location: initial Parkwood West, Indianapolis; permanent at Lilly Medicines Foundry, Lebanon, IN.