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Overview At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Organization Overview Lilly Is currently constructing the Lilly Medicines Foundry in Lebanon, In. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the startup team for a greenfield site. We are seeking engineers - Utilities and Environmental Control (ECU) to support the new Lilly Medicines Foundry in Lebanon. The engineers will we responsible for gray and clean utilities; environmental control engineers will be responsible for Tank Farm Operations, Air Emissions Systems, and Solvent Recovery Systems.
In the Project Delivery Phase and Startup Phase of the project (2025 To 2028), roles will be fluid and dynamic as we endeavor to support the project delivery, build a new organization, develop and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations and build the site culture. This will require significant collaboration, creativity and resilience as the Lilly Medicines Foundry goes from start-up to operational.
Responsibilities The Senior Director Engineering of Facilities, Utilities and Maintenance is directly responsible for managing the site facilities, utilities and maintenance and ensuring it has the necessary capacity, capability and leadership structures in place. The Senior Director Engineering of Facilities, Utilities and Maintenance is a member of the Lilly Medicines Foundry Site Lead Team. The Lead Team has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site. Primarily, the members of the team drive the site toward achieving long term business objectives; they continuously develop the business and the organization for the future bearing in mind corporate objectives and the continuously changing external environment; and they manage issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate/external context.
Key Responsibilities for this role include:
Pre-Startup and Startup Phase:
- Be a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader and support the broader lead team.
- Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence.
- Define the site engineering priorities & roadmap in order to develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the facilities, utilities and maintenance. This includes leveraging existing Lilly knowledge where necessary, but also incorporating external experiences and learning.
- Serve as a key member of the site HSE Lead Team, ensuring safety focus throughout project delivery and startup.
- Support the project team to deliver the facility as the end user. Providing feedback and support on design decisions, commissioning strategies, startup plan, etc. Collaborate to ensure the right decisions are made to meet project deliverables and longer-term strategic goals for the site.
- Develop and adapt organizational structure to provide correct and capable resources and management to deliver the site to a full scale GMP manufacturing as well as development.
- Ensure the systems are in place and executed to establish the initial qualified and safe state for the equipment, processes, utilities and facilities.
- Build technical relationships with the relevant corporate departments and sponsors strategic corporate initiatives at a site level.
Post Startup:
- Continue to define and support the site engineering priorities & roadmap for facilities, utilities and maintenance; integrate the functional agenda with site priorities.
- Ensure the site is in compliance with corporate standards and policies for the engineering function, including applicable environmental, safety, and quality requirements.
- Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally.
- Ensure equipment, processes, utilities and facilities remain and operate in a qualified and safe state; Ensure that equipment maintenance and utilities operation are performed and documented to the highest standards of safety and quality.
- Manage the site investment processes for assets (planning, prioritization, resourcing, project management, capital accounting and reporting). Own the development and delivery of the capital investment plan in accordance with the site objectives for new products, recapitalization of assets, and facility modernization.
- Ensure that a robust control system exists to manage the business, identify compliance issues and escalate issues appropriately is established and maintained.
- Develop the future management and technical leadership for the site and for potential global assignments.
Requirements:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 8 years of experience in a leadership role managing teams within the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in manufacturing including a Process Safety Management program is preferred.
- Must possess knowledge and understanding of cGMPs and how they apply to manufacturing operations.
- Must have a strong ability to form effective relationships at all levels. This candidate must be able to work closely with the Site Leadership team to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and internal decision making processes and be able to connect and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization on site.
- Should have a demonstrated track record of successfully developing, managing and executing projects from start to finish on time and within budget with high performance standards that ensure customer satisfaction.
- Should have experience developing and managing extremely talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures to ensure a safe and successful work environment.
Additional Information:- Final location for this role is Lebanon, IN but flexibility to work from Indianapolis will be required throughout 2025 and 2026.
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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$151,500 - $222,200
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify . click apply for full job details