Senior Principal Engineer - Automation Engineering – Laboratory and Analytical Equipment

Role Summary

Senior Principal Engineer - Automation Engineering will work as a member of the Automation Engineering Department at Eli Lilly, Foundry. The engineer provides automation support across one or more operating areas and capital projects, enabling right-first-time facility start-up and ongoing manufacturing operations. The role includes productivity and mentorship of the team to ensure reliable and compliant control applications and systems, and acts as a technical expert to influence process control and compliance objectives.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
• Mentor process control team, including design, controls philosophy, implementation and commissioning
• Process control work implementation and coordination
• Develop and implement the Automation Engineering Project Plan
• Technically lead and oversee the work of Site Area leads and System Integrator including Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, DCS Application Software, Test Specifications
• Lead/Participate in design reviews and DeltaV application software reviews, attend equipment and software FATs
• Lead a team of automation engineers supporting commissioning
• Provide periodic status updates to Project Management
• Devising functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems in collaboration with Process Engineering
• DCS software design, coding/configuration and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software etc.)
• Automation Engineering including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops
• Implementing and supporting electronic systems (such as plant historians) used to capture process automation related production data
• Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards including the development and execution of validation strategies and associated documentation
• Automation support for capital projects including new product introductions
• Promoting the use of automation to improve productivity, operational efficiency and compliance
• Developing a network of corporate contacts and leveraging corporate expertise when needed

Qualifications

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering and experience in Automation Engineering, preferably in major Pharmaceutical manufacturing handling Laboratory and Analytical systems and equipment, and Systems Integration
• 8+ years working experience in Biopharma engineering, operations, or manufacturing
• Experience in design, development, commissioning and qualification of highly automated greenfield manufacturing sites utilizing SCADA, DCS, MES, LIMS and Site Historian systems (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade, LabVantage, OSI PI)
• Experience in commissioning, qualifying and supporting Analytical equipment such as cell counters, environmental testing, filter testing, etc.
• Experience in facilitating and driving decision-making at an organizational level

Skills

• Process control
• DeltaV, DCS, SCADA, MES, LIMS, OSI PI
• Laboratory and analytical equipment experience
• GMP and regulatory knowledge
• Validation and computer system validation

Education

• B.S. in Engineering