Advisor - Engineering - IDM

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.

Organization Overview:

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.

This position will provide technical leadership within the IDM Engineering team to lead aspects of scope development, design, delivery, and optimization of Device Platform for the IDM and Device network, new product commercialization, capacity expansion, and ongoing operations. The role is responsible to identify and ensure requirements for new products and processes are established with a focus on automated process assembly. This role also provides leadership for manufacturing platform consistency and continuous improvement and serves as the responsible engineer defined in local quality practices.

Key Objectives/ Deliverables:

This role is positioned as a senior technical resource supporting commercialization and manufacturing. The following list represents areas of responsibility across product lifecycle:

Commercialization

• Perform Design for Manufacturability reviews; consult with and influence the Device R&D team to develop component designs that are compatible with the requirements of automated assembly and the scale of required production.
• Assure that tolerances, orientation features, materials, part interaction, ability to feed are appropriate for application.
• Lead and facilitate requirements, pFMEA, and control strategy generation; identify and mitigate patient risk that may arise from equipment designGenerate and/or interpret the Assembly Process Specification in the context of a project to design automated assembly equipment
• Work with project teams to select equipment OEMsRepresent the engineering function in Due Diligence activities for business developmentIdentifyand introduce new device assembly process technology strategies to optimize capital utilization and minimize time-to-volume
• Support and influence assembly technology development initiatives
• Assist or lead de-risking/proof-of-concept work for new processes or technologies
• Develop business case for application of technology

Project/Asset Delivery

• Mentor technical team members with focus on recent campus grads and project technical leads
• Consult with project teams on technical strategies, technical risks, and risk mitigation
• Initiate and/or support proof-of-principle applications with OEM’s and the CTC
• Serve as SME in technical studies as required to support project delivery
• Troubleshoot major issues arising during debug or qualification of assets Participate in design reviews of higher risk systems and/or those requested from the project teamRev