Automation Technician - Night Shift

Overview

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.

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.

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!

The Automation Technician - Night Shift is responsible for equipment performance, providing first-line support to production processes, as well as supporting area engineering initiatives, process improvements, project implementation, performing mechanical repairs and adjustments, and executing routine PMs. This position will require the development of expertise in production processes, commissioning, qualification, and validation requirements and equipment-specific code and/or control system technologies. The Automation Technician - Night Shift will help ensure that equipment is maintained in a qualified state, can be operated safely, and maintenance is properly performed on the systems.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Assure that operational and maintenance procedures and practices reflect safety concerns.
• Perform activities in accordance with cGMPs and applicable procedures.
• Must possess a good mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot and repair equipment while, following departmental rules and regulations.
• Troubleshoot the root causes of machine problems (e.g., excessive vibration or temperature, bearing failures, abnormal noises, and poor performance).
• Identify opportunities to improve quality using equipment performance data and by assuring maintenance is performed appropriately.
• Setup equipment to design specifications (e.g., timing, leveling, alignment)
• Operate precision alignment equipment (e.g., Roma-align, lasers, etc.)
• Must have the ability to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of a problem and implement the proper corrective actions to minimize downtime.
• Must accurately document the actions taken to repair the equipment in the CMMS program.

• Willing to assist in areas outside of their primary responsibility and learn other skills, as required
• Experience in instrumentation, PLC and/or HMI programming.

• Effectively communicate with all levels to ensure all projects and repairs are well planned and coordinated with minimal disruption to that area involved.
• Working with the process team, including engineers and operations personnel, participating in and sometimes leading the development of equipment design, procedures, engineering studies, and maintenance practices that will enable the process to operate as required.
• Seek out and identify opportunities to improve equipment operational effectiveness and reliability.
• Must be able to effectively use business software programs, such as, Maximo, Microsoft Outlook,…