MES Engineer – Manufacturing and Quality

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.

Help us advance our purpose to make life-saving medicines that matter 

The Manufacturing and Quality (M&Q) Global Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Team is actively looking for a Systems Engineer with MES experience. Are you passionate about manufacturing excellence and applying technology to make reliable and life-saving medicines? If so, bring YOUR skills and talents to Lilly where you’ll have the chance to create an impact on the lives of patients. 

Our broader M&Q IT organization leverages technology and analytics to transform, scale, and support manufacturing operational excellence and productivity. This team helps produce medicines using machine learning and robotic capabilities with some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards.

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. 

Organization Overview:

For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

What You’ll Be Doing: 

This Dedicated Manufacturing & Quality IT position will be part of the Global API MES Team.  Our Global API MES team is a partner with the Lilly API sites worldwide that manufacture the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for our medicine.  We partner across 4 production sites today, with two additional ones in the pipeline and growth of new sites on the horizon.  The Global API MES team is purposed to deliver and support Manufacturing Execution Systems through championing standardization of business processes and common DeltaV MES/Syncade (Software by Emerson) modules that enable manufacturing sites to deliver world class performance.  This position will report to an MQ IT Director and will focus on the following key elements:

• Managing DeltaV MES/Syncade software release lifecycle, licensing technology & processes
• Managing application regression testing
• Delivering and managing a global common validation package and common foundational objects for recipe development
• Driving delivery and investigation of tools to accelerate recipe development and digital transformation
• Serve as an Escalation point for Tier 1/2 support
• Act as a liaison between the Global API MES team and sites during audits and inspections

You will work as a Systems Engineer in a growing organization to help design and develop new solutions to our manufacturing execution challenges in an industry that is ever-changing with higher quality and regulatory expectations.  This role will work with site IT to tackle business problems and improve business processes by working with them to identify and ensure the most appropriate solutions are deployed. This role will bring IT principles, architecture, and technology together in a way that is business-driven and focuses on business processes.  You will do this by developing in-depth knowledge of the business, building strong relationships with business partners, and assisting M&Q IT management with long-term, strategic level plans.

How You’ll Succeed: 

• You will drive new releases & hot fix technical assessments and related interoperability test with DeltaV MES/Syncade.
• You will influence life cycle decisions, coordinate & manage LCM processes, and execute\facilitate complex technical upgrades.
• You may configure & deploy MES software application and system.
• You will enable common processes across the sites such as RA Behaviors, Global Components and Work Instructions.
• Working closely with IT at