Principal Reliability Engineer - ADN RAMP Team - Military Veterans

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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

Position Brand Description:

The Lilly API/Dry Product Network is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for new products, and several new greenfield sites are under construction and will be starting up in the coming years. The new sites are staffed based on full-scale, steady state production, however additional surge capacity is needed to support the site start-up and help quickly ramp to full capacity rates.

The Engineer - ADN RAMP (Rapid Access to Medicines for Patients) team is a cross-functional team that will bring deep manufacturing expertise and will support each site start-up through Operational Excellence knowledge, rapid troubleshooting and problem-solving capability, and surge capacity resources. This unique opportunity will enable team members to work at our new sites, create a larger Lilly network, build and use their technical skills, and learn leadership skills through formal training and on-the-ground experiences. This team will also build strategies to help other new Lilly sites to start up faster, helping to accelerate Lilly’s vision of serving more patients.

Success in this challenging role will require supporting the sites through startup through direct technical execution, coaching next employees, and strong collaboration – and development of the local technical and operational teams to be ready for full operation.

The team will directly report through their respective functions but will be coordinated by the Ramp Team Sr. Director. 

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Provide reliability engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery team and the Site Engineering team, with a strong focus on safe, right first-time delivery and on-time facility start-up, through application of engineering fundamentals.
• Partner with the site engineering team to provide additional capacity for tasks including but not limited to: operational readiness, C&Q support, on-floor process support, document reviews, deviation investigation, change controls, with a focus on asset delivery details (e.g. maintenance packages, maintenance strategies)
• Coach and develop local technical team capabilities to support acceleration of operational excellence and technical skills.
• Utilize root cause analysis techniques to investigate system and equipment issues and deliver robust and sustainable corrective and preventative actions.
• Monitor, assess, and document equipment performance to maintain ongoing qualification of assets
• Maintain the basis of safety for facility and utilities equipment and systems.
• Assist in long-term asset management deliverables including maintenance plans, troubleshooting guides, condition monitoring equipment application/installation, and ongoing monitoring plans for these types of equipment and systems.

Basic Requirements:

• BS degree in Engineering or related science field.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience required, preferably in pharmaceutical API/Dry Products Manufacturing.
• Deep technical interest and understanding facility, utility, and process equipment and systems.
• Deep technical interest and understanding in manufacturing operational excellence principles.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Technical knowledge of utility generating equipment such as boilers, chillers, towers air compressors, HVAC units, hot water skids, pumping systems, and other types of rotating equipment.
• Technical knowledge of fluid system fundamentals such as pumping, pressure control, flow control, and associated monitoring instrumentation.
• Ability to navigate CMMS (GMARS) to facilitate asset implementation.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative skills with operations, QA, other engineering groups and team members.
• Ability to coach others.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to clarify and simplify complex issues.
• Strong trust building with peers and leaders.
• Willing to work off-shift hours as needed to support project milestones and training of new employees.

Other Information:

The ADN RAMP team will support multiple new API/Dry Products sites in various locations (US and OUS). Significant travel may be required to current startup sites in order to meet business needs, along with potential short-term assignments across the network (can include international relocations). Candidates must be mobile and flexible.

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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, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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