Principal Engineer - DAP RAMP Team

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.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$64,500 - $167,200

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 +35,000 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.

Lilly is starting up multiple new Device and Packaging (DAP) assets in manufacturing to increase our reach to patients. These assets will provide medicine for current and future products, and we need to improve the RAMP of these assets (Rapid Acceleration of Medicine to Patients).  In order to start these lines with a strong safety, quality, and operationally excellent culture, the Engineer for DAP RAMP Team will be responsible for technical support of a cross functional team supporting all new startup DAP assets to support the sites during key milestones, supporting the training and upskilling of newly hired resources at the sites, and developing common processes and practices ultimately improving the RAMP curve for these assets ensuring safety first, quality always, while improving the operational efficiencies of these investments. 

This is a unique opportunity to support global startup activities for greenfield manufacturing sites both internally and externally, and the successful candidate will help ensure overall site readiness plans to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

Engineer of the DAP RAMP Team is responsible for providing engineering and technical support for processes, materials, systems, and equipment associated with device assembly and packaging.  In addition, providing technical expertise to drive improvements in quality and efficiency globally for Device and Packaging to support our new site startups through key milestones such as performance qualification activities, process validations, and on through licensure and operational ramp-up periods. This role will partner with site operational teams and engineering areas to support technical resources who are responsible for supporting the sites through key milestones as additional technical capacity with the goal of improving the operational ramp curve for startup. 

This role will work closely with Lilly’s central engineering, technical services, information technology, HSE, quality assurance, and quality control roles to identify and deploy resources to the different sites.  In addition, this role will closely work with network leadership to coordinate assignments for building skills and capabilities of newly hired Lilly employees at the new facilities through training and short-term opportunities working at operational Lilly facilities.  This role will be located outside the US (preferably Europe), with 30-50% travel to the various startup sites – with a focus of RAMP activities occurring outside of the US, with potential to have some US support as well.   

• Analysis of operations, workflows, and device assembly and/or packaging process to provide solutions to maximize efficiency and reduce waste to improve OEE performance

• Assist DAP sites personnel with line support, process monitoring, problem solving, and reliability improvements

• Support DAP sites with developing and implementing process improvements and technology upgrades that help with minimizing costs and production issues

• Assist DAP with building process flow models to predict bottlenecks and resources needed for projects or for other sites

• Knowledge sharing – Serve as a key resource to support site device assembly and/or packaging engineering groups, dom