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MES Engineer / Analyst

Eli Lilly and Company
5 months ago
On-site
Lebanon, IN
$64,500 - $184,800 USD yearly
IT
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Design, develop, deliver, and qualify the MES solution for the Lilly Medicines Foundry.
- Partner with process automation, business areas, and technology teams to implement and support MES recipes and manufacturing execution systems/components.

Responsibilities:
- Execute the MES strategy for the Lilly Medicine Foundry.
- Ensure site operational readiness via MES and Digital Execution strategies.
- Partner locally and globally to establish and implement the site IT roadmap.
- Adapt the roadmap to site evolution, strategic directions, and new trends/issues.
- Influence the business to drive value and implement appropriate technical solutions.
- Evaluate and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
- Create and maintain documentation (functional/technical specifications, test cases, validation protocols).
- Maintain project/validation documentation through lifecycle and release management.
- Develop/maintain MES recipes and interfaces with other Lilly systems.
- Translate business processes into technical terms (and vice versa).
- Apply regulatory/quality requirements impacting the quality control laboratory to ensure solution compliance.
- Keep systems validated; manage lifecycle through releases, recapitalization, and retirement.
- Execute incident, problem, configuration, and change/release management in alignment with business needs.
- Act as MES IT systems technology key contact SME.

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in IT, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of relevant MES implementation experience for pharma customers.
- Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis (Lilly does not sponsor visas/work authorization).

Additional Skills / Preferences:
- Knowledge/experience with Apprentice and Tulip Manufacturing Execution Systems.
- Experience integrating MES with enterprise systems (e.g., ERP and SCADA).
- GMP regulatory knowledge (e.g., FDA pharmaceutical manufacturing regulations).
- Computer System Validation knowledge.
- Cybersecurity concepts/best practices for MES.
- Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical/operational/business issues; prioritize and escalate.
- Learning agility and curiosity.
- Ability to convert quality control business processes into IT requirements/solutions.

Application Instructions:
- Not provided in the text.