Maintenance Supervisor - Lilly Medicine Foundry
Listed on 2026-07-18
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Industrial Maintenance, Maintenance Manager
Maintenance Supervisor
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 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 Maintenance Supervisor is a key leader responsible for overseeing all maintenance 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 maintaining and repairing process, facility, and utility equipment according to established guidelines. The Site Maintenance Supervisor leads and develops the maintenance team, 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 Maintenance 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, local procedures
- Manage People Effectively – Responsible for managing daily maintenance operations across shifts up to 7 days a week, including attendance, overtime, resource planning, operational issues, performance management, development planning and reporting of results.
- Maintenance Excellence – Ensuring quality of Maintenance Execution.
- Main point of contact for maintenance 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 Maintenance KPI's associated with Team's performance.
- Aligns Team Priorities to support production plan.
- Interfaces with customers to insure 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.
- Investigates Team deviations as needed. Owns incident reporting, investigating, and corrective measures. Responsible for maintenance staffing including recruitment.
Basic Requirements:
- High School Diploma
- Five years of industrial maintenance experience in a leadership/supervisory role.
- 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:
- Previous supervisory/leadership experience required
- Regulated GMP manufacturing experience required
- Manufacturing, industrial maintenance or building maintenance knowledge preferred
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both written and…
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