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Sr. Engineer - Automation Engineering – Mixed Modalities Manufacturing - Lilly Medicine Foundry

Eli Lilly and Company
August 08, 2026
Remote friendly (Lebanon, IN)
United States
Operations
The Engineer – Automation Engineering will provide automation support for operating areas and/or capital projects at Eli Lilly, Foundry, ensuring reliable and compliant control applications/systems for GMP manufacturing.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:
- Technical leadership: mentor process control team (design, controls philosophy, implementation, commissioning)
- Implement and coordinate process control work; lead/oversee Site Area leads and System Integrator (functional requirements, design specs, DCS application software, test specs)
- Lead/participate in design reviews, DeltaV application reviews, and attend FATs; lead a team supporting commissioning
- Provide periodic status updates to Project Management
- Define functional requirements and process control strategies with Process Engineering
- DCS/SCADA design, coding/configuration, and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software)
- Design, tune, troubleshoot control loops
- Implement/support electronic systems (e.g., plant historians and software integration)
- Maintain validated control systems state via validation strategy and documentation
- Support capital projects/new product introductions; promote automation for productivity/efficiency/compliance

Qualifications/Requirements:
- Minimum B.S. in Engineering; Automation Engineering experience (preferably Small Molecule API, Biologics, and/or Cell Therapy)
- 2+ years in biopharma engineering/operations/manufacturing
- US authorization required; Lilly does not sponsor visas/work authorization

Preferred:
- Greenfield automation commissioning/qualification using SCADA, DCS, PLC, MES (e.g., DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade)

Benefits (if eligible): company bonus and comprehensive benefits (including 401(k), medical/dental/vision, flexible benefits, life insurance, time off, well-being).