Senior Engineer – Project Manager

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.

Responsibilities

The Global Packaging and Global Serialization Program is responsible for providing engineering and technical support for Lilly commercial packaging operations worldwide, that includes asset delivery.  Our mission to support Lilly commercial packaging globally is accomplished through a staff of internal Lilly technical experts as well as a leveraged organization of design, construction and qualification contractors. Many of the assets delivered focus on medical innovation and delivering innovative solutions to patients. Some of the assets delivered will support an expansion in supply of existing medicines or making the supply chain more robust.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

Project Management: Lead and manage large capital projects ($5MM to $100+MM) consisting of both Lilly and Non-Lilly professionals to safely achieve project objectives from conceptual design through performance qualification and/or process validation. Project objectives are defined by scope, asset capability or capacity, cost, schedule and compliance.

Compliance: Lead with a disciplined, structured approach to project management based on compliance with GFD, Global Packaging and Company Policies and Procedures.

Safety/Environment: Develop and maintain safety and environmental execution plans for projects. Ensure compliance to safety and environmental policies, procedures, and work rules for project personnel, contractors, and subcontractors from conceptual design through operational qualification.

Interface/Communication: Develop and maintain effective communication with project team, governance teams, business partners and other stakeholders as the size and complexity of the project may dictate.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

• 3+ years experience in project management, project delivery, engineering, packaging process engineering, serialization or related fields supporting packaging operations

• Experience with packaging equipment, specifications, qualification/validation process, product/package stability, and packaging components

• Capital Project Management Experience in packaging facilities

• Previous experience on projects >$5+ million

• Experience in most of the following disciplines: Automation, construction, construction quality, project controls, the engineering disciplines, safety, scheduling

Additional Skills/ Preferences

• The capacity to achieve results through people is critical

• Facilitate issue resolution, anticipate scope changes, and implement safely with quality, speed and value

• Willingness to relocate and/or significant travel to locations outside of home state/country and have the demonstrated ability to work at long distances with little supervision

• Problem Solving skills – Anticipates and resolves complex problems

• Ability to work independently and with minimal direction

• Ability to work across boundaries (functional, geographic, external company, etc)

• Thorough technical understanding of the quality systems and regulatory requirements

• Familiarity with technology advances in packaging

• Project management experience

Additional Information

• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time, US and international

• Will require occasional work in a variety of manufacturing environments; some safety equipment and/or gowning may be required

• The primary location for this position will be the Indianapolis Tech Centre South in the U.S. However, applications from other U.S. Lilly sites will also be considered, including North Carolina (Concord and Research Triangle Park) and Wisconsin (Kenosha County).

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