Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing over $50 Billion to create new Manufacturing Capacity throughout the world. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and start up new sites.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Sr Principal Engineer – MES System will part of a central global team tasked with developing standard approaches and components that will used to build MES recipes and integration throughout Lilly’s network of new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) sites.  The role will assist local teams in the Design, Development, Delivery and CSV of the MES solutions for the new facilities. This role will report to the MQ IT Leader for new facilities.

What You Should Bring (preferred skills)

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (cGMP)
• Effective people and team leadership skills
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple concurrent activities and adapt to changes in priorities.
• Ability to cross functionally collaborate.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrate creativity, analytical thinking, and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Knowledge of cloud solutions and architecture
• History of promoting safety and maintaining a safe work environment
• Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards.
• Demonstrated adhere adherence to compliance for internal and external quality guidance.
• Demonstrated and promote Operational Excellence
• Effectively encourage knowledge sharing and education
• Evaluate and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to problem solving and work through manufacturing situations. Have experience serving as an escalation contact with vendor(s)
• Proven technical ability to develop and integrate MES solutions

What Your Primary Responsibilities Will Be:

• Develop and integrate MES common and site-specific components.
• Benchmark on innovative solutions (external and internal to Lilly)
• Dynamically adapt road map to site evolution/strategic directions, and new trends/issues.
• Establish a strong site culture based in Lilly values, expectations, and operational excellence standards.
• Support MES solutions start up activities.
• Work with site resources towards replication & standardization to drive value and implement the appropriate technical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and implications to existing Lilly footprint.
• Maintain open communication with MES vendor(s) to address needs in standard solution or via functional packs.
• Evaluate and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure project and/or validation documentation is maintained during lifecycle & release management.
• Develops \ assists in the creation and maintenance of the MES interfaces with other Lilly systems.

Your Basic Qualifications (with no sponsorship)

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, or related technical field,
• 5+ years of strong experience with MES system implementations and Data Integration preferably Syncade, Delta V or Pharmasuite MES
• Professional experience working in a GXP, regulated environment
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States; Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Other Information:

• Role is Monday through Friday and based on-site.  Must be flexible in providing support to accommodate other inputs (production schedules, shutdowns, etc.).  Occasional extended hour and / or off-hour work may be required.
• Position will be based out of Indianapolis, IN site with ability to travel to other US and global Lilly sites as required and up to 50% of the time.
• 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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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$63,750 – $180,400Full-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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