Engineering Senior Director, Site Expansion

Role Summary

The Engineering Sr. Director, Site Expansion role is a critical leadership position responsible for guiding the seamless integration of a major site expansion into the site’s commercial operations. The role focuses on engineering delivery, operational readiness, and alignment with broader project and site objectives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering support for major expansion project partnering with Lilly Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network
• Ensure measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of key project milestones to help drive the business and better serve our customers
• Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported
• Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project
• Building engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources
• Partner closely with Engineering leader at the site to ensure alignment between ongoing operations and project needs

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Required: 10+ Engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site
• Required: Experience from onboarding and/or executing larger capital projects
• Required: Previous facility or area start up experience
• Required: Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group including network and/or global functions
• Required: Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Required: Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
• Required: Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
• Preferred: Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
• Preferred: Previous experience with parenteral engineering/manufacturing
• Preferred: Previous experience with highly automated equipment
• Preferred: Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
• Preferred: Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
• Preferred: Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release
• Preferred: Previous experience with Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs
• Preferred: Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise