Associate Director, Plant Engineering – Lilly Medicine Foundry

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Organization and Position Overview

Lilly recently announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. The first-ever facility of its kind, combining research and manufacturing in a single location, the Medicine Foundry will allow Lilly to further develop innovative solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and increase capacity for clinical trial medicines, while also reducing costs and environmental impact.

The Associate Director, Plant Engineering provides leadership and direction to the Area Engineering, Calibration and Planning / Scheduling functions within the site FUME (Facilities, Utilities, Maintenance & Engineering) organization.  The Associate Director, Plant Engineering ensures that area engineering, calibration and planning/scheduling deliverables are sufficiently resourced and qualified to support the Small Molecule, New Modality (Peptide, Oligonucleotide and conjugated), and Biologics production goals and business agenda within the Medicine Foundry.  The Associate Director, Plant Engineering is directly responsible for developing and maintaining the area engineering, calibration and planning / schedule technical programs.

In the project delivery phase and startup phase of the project (startup expected 2025 to 2027), leadership 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 site grows to a full scale GMP manufacturing through start up. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for oversight of campus specific building area engineering personnel in regards to engineering lifecycle management of critical and non-critical activities associated with GMP clinical manufacturing and all necessary support functions.
• Ensure compliance related engineering and facilities activities such as deviations, change controls and CAPA’s (Corrective and Preventive Actions) are resolved and implemented in conjunction with Operations, Process Engineering, Supply Chain and Quality Assurance.
• Collaborate with Medicine Foundry key stakeholders along with global engineering  and ETC (Engineering Technical Center) resources in order to drive and manage engineering related CAPEX projects for each building of the Lilly Medicine Foundry campus.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining a GMP compliant site calibration program for all critical and non-critical instrumentation for the Medicine Foundry in alignment with Lilly global standards and procedures.
• Responsible for oversight and administration of the FUME organization’s CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) for the Lilly Medicine Foundry in alignment with global engineering standards and practices.
• Implementing and overseeing a comprehensive planning / scheduling FUME (Facilities, Utilities, Maintenance and Engineering) function for the daily and future coordination of work activities including corrective / preventive maintenance, calibration, work readiness (kitting), engineering project support, planned shutdowns and critical spare parts management.
• Collaborate with both internal FUME resources and key stakeholders (Supply Chain, Operations and Quality) in order to align and bundle work packages to minimize facility / equipment downtime and customer interruption while driving overall plant throughput.
• Responsible for supervising, coaching and developing engineering personnel and other staff including completing performance evaluations and development planning.
• Identify, track and report key indicators of functional performance such as on time delivery, budget adherence and compliance related metrics.
• Ensure alignment and compliance with corporate engineering expectations (CMMS administration, calibration execution, scheduling performance, spare parts management etc).  Actively work within the global engineering and ETC network to ensure alignment with corporate initiatives and utilization of best practices. 
• Support site governance through participation, influence and leadership in c