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Principal Engineer - Project Manager-1

Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Mar 2025
💰 $167,200/yr($64,500/yr$167,200/yr)

About the role

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.

Position Brand Description:
Indianapolis Device Manufacturing (IDM) is responsible for the development, commercialization, manufacture, and global technical stewardship of delivery devices used to administer many of the therapeutics in Lilly's portfolio. This includes the delivery of equipment to support device manufacturing. This role is an asset delivery project manager supporting local and/or major capital projects across the Global Lilly Device Network.

Responsibilities:

  • Health, Safety and Environmental - The Project Manager is accountable for the safety of the Project Team and those who are involved with asset delivery. This includes but not limited to Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) plans, metrics, driving an HSE mindset into the project team and being a leading example for HSE
  • Project Cost and Schedule - The Project Manager is accountable for developing the budget and schedule of the project which includes creating cost estimates, scenario building, cash flow projections, drive the funding process, driving schedule creation from level 0 thru level 4, having the proper controls in place, analyzing the costs and critical path to reduce cost and time, building a risk profile to understand and articulate impacts to cost and schedule and remediating the risks
  • Project Quality - The Project Manager is accountable for the quality of the asset being delivered. The asset/system must function according to the User Requirements (URs) and must be reliable
  • Project Execution and Governance - The Project Manager will be required to create and implement a communications plan, resource tracking, weekly/monthly/quarterly project metrics, presentations, etc. throughout the project. Project close-out and capitalization is also part of the PMs responsibilities
  • Continuous Improvement (CI) - The Project Manager will be required to advance the IDM Device Realization Process (DRP) via improvement activities either in conjunction with assigned projects or as standalone assignments


Basic Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field (Engineering degree preferred).


Additional Skills/Preferences:

  • 3+ years experience in capital project management, procurement, construction scheduling, and/or GMP experience
  • Demonstrated leadership capability and good interpersonal skills
  • Ability to coach and mentor
  • Understanding of GMP and ISO requirements relative to drug delivery systems


Additional Information:

  • 10% or greater travel required (Domestic and/or International)

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.


Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$64,500 - $167,200

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