Instrumentation Supervisor - Lilly Medicine Foundry

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. 

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 Calibration Supervisor is a key leader responsible for overseeing all calibration activities to ensure the company’s assets are managed in compliance with cGMP and other applicable standards. This role ensures equipment availability, reliability, and optimal performance by calibrating and maintaining process, facility, and utility equipment according to established guidelines. The Calibration Supervisor leads and develops a team of instrument technicians by fostering a culture of safety, technical expertise, and innovation. In addition, this role ensures alignment of maintenance programs and initiatives with organizational goals for safety, quality, and efficiency, directly supporting the delivery of novel medicines for clinical trials within The Medicine Foundry. This position will be responsible for developing initial processes and requirements for the calibration team in preparation for operation.

Responsibilities

• Safety - Sets expectations for a positive & proactive safety culture, 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, and local procedures.
• Manage People Effectively – Responsible for managing daily activities of the calibration and instrumentation team including attendance, overtime, resource planning, operational issues, performance management, development planning and reporting of results. Team schedule will be primarily Monday-Friday although nightshift and weekend support may be required based on business needs.
• Calibration & Instrumentation Excellence –
• Ensuring quality of calibration and maintenance plan execution. Main point of contact for calibration/instrumentation and responsible for escalation of any issues.
• Responsible for team training and development and ensuring team is current on training prior to assigning work.
• Responsible for calibration KPI’s associated with team’s performance.
• Aligns team priorities to support production schedule and equipment availability.
• Interfaces with customers to ensure alignment and effective prioritization of maintenance activities.
• Monitors the business and execution processes to ensure work is being performed in conformance with site and corporate goals.
• Reviews a subset of executed Work Orders.
• Owns incident reporting, investigating, and corrective measures. Responsible for maintenance staffing including recruitment.

Basic Requirements:

• High School Diploma
• 5+ years of industrial calibration or instrumentation experience in a leadership or supervisory role, FDA regulated industry preferred.
• Previous supervisory/leadership experience required
• Regulated GMP manufacturing experience required.
• Strong understanding of electrical systems and calibration, including the following:
  • Instrumentation (pressure, temperature, flow, level, pH)
  • Electrical test equipment (flukes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc.)
  • Electrical troubleshooting (24 VDC to 120 VAC)

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• 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.

Additional Preferences:

• Manufactur