Maintenance and Automation Night Shift Supervisor

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. 

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Lilly is a new state of the art Parenteral, Device Assembly, and Packaging Facility in Concord, North Carolina.  This is an exciting opportunity to help produce injectable medications for our patients with life altering conditions.

We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world and embody our company values of Integrity, Excellence, and Respect for People 

Responsibilities: The role oversees night‑shift maintenance and automation activities, ensuring all team members follow required safety practices and maintain strong housekeeping standards. It is responsible for quality compliance with cGMPs and site procedures while managing staffing, performance, and daily operations across multiple shifts. The supervisor drives maintenance excellence by ensuring high‑quality maintenance execution, training readiness, KPI performance, and alignment with production needs. They also review work orders, investigate deviations, and lead incident reporting and corrective actions to support reliable 24/7 manufacturing operations.

Key Deliverables:

• Safety - Ensures that all team members are knowledgeable and compliant regarding safety procedures, policies, permits and practices. Initiates and leads accident, near miss reviews and incident notifications. Ensures proper housekeeping procedures are maintained.

• Quality – Responsible for team’s compliance and meeting the quality standards as defined by cGMPs, the Global Quality Standards, local procedures

• Manage People Effectively – Responsible for managing daily maintenance operations across shifts up to 7 days a week, including attendance, overtime, operational issues, performance management, development planning and reporting of results.

• Maintenance Excellence –

  • Ensuring quality of Maintenance Execution and RFU

  • Responsible for Team Training and Development and ensuring team is current on training prior to assigning work

  • Responsible for Maintenance KPI’s associated with Team’s performance

  • Aligns Team Priorities to Support Production Plan

  • Interfaces with customers to ensure alignment

  • Completing weekly Practice vs Procedure Checks

  • Reviewing a sampling of executed Work Orders

• Investigates Team deviations as needed

• Owns incident reporting, investigating, and corrective measures

Basic Requirements:  

• Five years of manufacturing or maintenance experience in a leadership/supervisory role

• High School / GED minimum ​

• Visa Sponsorship: Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.​

  • Previous supervisory/leadership experience required

  • Knowledgeable of Parenteral or Packaging Maintenance operations and processes or other GMP manufacturing experience

  • Formulation, Filling, Device Assembly or Packaging Knowledge

  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally with multiple levels within the organization

  • Demonstrated ability to provide coaching and feedback

  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize, set objectives and meet targets

  • Demonstrated ability to provide high-level customer service