Sr. Engineer - Automation

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.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing over $1 billion to create a new state-of-the-art manufacturing site, in Concord, North Carolina. The brand-new facility will utilize the latest technology to increase the company's manufacturing capacity in parenteral (injectable) medications, device assembly and packaging operations. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site.  The Lilly Concord site will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!

We are currently hiring for Automation Engineers for our Concord, NC site!

Specifically, this role will entail the following scope:

Provide automation design and oversight to the delivery of Lilly's new Concord facility.
Manage system integrators to deliver all aspects of Automation for Lilly's new Concord based facility.
Support key corporate initiatives such as life cycle management, Engineering information management, and cyber security
Evaluate new technology and innovation trends leading to the development of proof of concepts and sharing of use cases for application within Lilly.
Drive automation governance and replication across the Global Parenteral Network and the Global Packaging Network for Tier 1 equipment, architecture, and Automation/IT systems and solutions.
 

In addition, this role will work to optimizes and improve project automation engineering approaches by combining technical expertise, best practices, engineering standards, and project delivery expertise. 

Key Objectives/Deliverables

Safety – Work safely and continually looks for improvements in personnel and equipment safety, ensure safe design and operation of new equipment, ensure automation design reflects safety concerns for operations and maintenance.
Automation/Control Discipline and Technical Leadership – Partner with colleagues to lead the discipline through solution assessment, replication, and development.  Manage tools, engineering standards, master specifications and best practices. Provide technical coaching and consultation to other Lilly engineers, facilitate shared learning forums. 
Automation Design – Provide support to European manufacturing sites and Global Facilities Delivery during project profiling and design.  Ensure project design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non-value add complexity.  Use replication and best practices to optimize project cost.
External Influence and Benchmarking - Monitor and influence, when appropriate, changes in external codes and standards on Lilly’s behalf, and work to ensure ongoing compliance within Lilly.  Extract benchmarking information from academia and industry.
Technology and Innovation.  Keep current on external trends and practices to evaluate technology for application within Lilly.
 

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Technology, or a related field
Minimum 3 years’ experience in automation machine control, process control, or equivalent work experience in a related field.

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 Skills/Preferences

Demonstrated ability to work safely
Demonstrated expertise in one or more automation platforms, preferable Rockwell Automation Systems.
Significant experience and strong problem-solving skills in measurements, control (process and/or manufacturing), control systems, integration, and data.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Ability to manage people and projects to deliver a common set of objectives
Knowledge of GMP’s and pharmaceutical manufacturing
Knowledge in Microsoft Operating Systems
Knowledge in Databases
 

Additional Information

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