Utilities Operations Supervisor - Lilly Medicine Foundry

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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 LMF Utilities Operations Supervisor is responsible for overseeing utility operations. This includes ensuring the safe and uninterrupted generation and distribution of utility services to meet the Foundry’s needs effectively. The role demands strong leadership and direct supervision of operators, including hiring, training, coaching, and development. The Supervisor integrates daily oversight of processes, equipment, facility, and personnel to safely produce quality products. Additionally, the Shift Supervisor must be adept at troubleshooting, problem-solving, proposing solutions, and supporting the implementation of improvements within their areas of responsibility.

The Utilities Supervisor leads a team/shift that operates and maintains all utility systems (high purity water, compressed air, steam, chilled water, glycol, city water and sewers).  This position is responsible for ensuring that all UMS alarms for the Foundry are monitored and responded to appropriately, while maintaining safe, compliant, and cost-efficient operations.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

Drive the safety culture and HSE compliance in daily work

• Comply with all HSE aspects and support departmental HSE plans
• Participate in and promote the use of all safety programs.
• Participate in self-assessments for HSE programs.
• Lead monthly safety meetings.
• Provide a safe working environment by continued development of the safety strategy efforts to help drive continuous improvement and accountability.
• Engage the team in safety initiatives.

Quality

• Have sufficient technical proficiency of unit operations in order to solve problems and conduct effective investigations (safety, environmental, quality)
• Ensure that operators are trained, qualified and fit to do their daily work.
• Ensure understanding and compliance with established procedures and policies (safety, environmental, quality, production, human resources, maintenance…)
• Ensure equipment and facilities are maintained in a manner fit for use.
• Maintain a state of inspection readiness.
• Ensure documents related to operations are accurate and executed as written using good documentation practices.
• Ensure all service level agreement excursions are reported as observations.

Operational Excellence

• Authorize overtime to ensure the shift is properly staffed to conduct the operations in a safe and compliant manner
• Ensure the Utility operations functions are performed in timely, proactive, compliant, and cost-effective manner.
• Engage in process team initiatives; evaluate proposed changes in processes or equipment and influence the outcomes and design.
• Support communications between shifts and the functional teams to sustain and improve communications.
• Ensure continuous supply of utilities to customers within service level agreement parameters.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide leader-led training to qualify employees to operate utilities process systems.

Productivity and Continuous Improvement

• Apply technical expertise and background to ensure all plant utility systems are maintained in a high state of readiness and participate in the long-term upgrade/replacement strategy development.
• Effectively (clearly and accurately) make and communicate decisions to staff and management including communicating the rationale behind decisions made
• Working with other Supervisors, Process Teams, and Operators to identify opportunities to reduce and prevent issues from occurring (targeted continuous improvement)
• Communicating operations floor issues (safety, environmental, quality, etc.), status of operations to process owners in a timely manner
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