Sr. Principal Process Safety Management Engineer - ADN 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.

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Description:

The Lilly API/Dry Product Network (ADN) is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for new products, and several new greenfield sites are under construction and will be starting up in the coming years. The new sites are staffed based on full-scale, steady state production; however additional surge capacity is needed to support the site start-up and help quickly ramp to full capacity rates.

The ADN RAMP (Rapid Access to Medicines for Patients) team is a cross-functional team that will bring deep manufacturing expertise and will support each site start-up through Operational Excellence knowledge, rapid troubleshooting and problem-solving capability, and surge capacity resources. This unique opportunity will enable team members to work at our new sites, create a larger Lilly network, build and use their technical skills, and learn leadership skills through formal training and on-the-ground experiences.

This team will also build strategies to help other new Lilly sites to start up faster, helping to accelerate Lilly’s vision of serving more patients.

Success in this challenging role will require supporting the sites through startup through direct technical execution, coaching new employees, and strong collaboration – and development of the local technical and operational teams to be ready for full operation.

The team will directly report through their respective functions but will be coordinated by the Ramp Team Sr. Director.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Provide process safety engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery team and the Site Health Safety and Environmental Team.
• Partner with the site engineering and HSE team to provide additional capacity for tasks including but not limited to: operational readiness, C&Q support, on-floor process support, document reviews, change controls.
• Support the roll out of process safety management (PSM) program elements such as employee participation, Management of Change, Pre-Startup Safety Review, Process hazard analysis (PHA), etc.
• Support the Site PSM Team through training, mentoring, and onboarding of staff to help support development of a strong process safety culture
• Coach and develop local technical team capabilities to support acceleration of operational excellence and technical skills
• Utilize root cause analysis techniques to investigate process safety and equipment issues and deliver robust and sustainable corrective and preventative actions
• Maintain the basis of safety for process equipment.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, or related field of study;
  Process Safety Professional Certification(CCPSC) or Professional Engineer (PE) certification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the chemical or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge and experience in process safety, including knowledge of OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) regulation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to influence without authority.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Strong analytical skills and systematic and structured way of working.
• Ability to coach others.
• Ability to clarify and simplify complex issues.
• Willing to work off-shift hours as needed to support project milestones and training of new employees.
• Trained facilitator in Process Hazard Analysis, HAZOP, and What-If Methodologies.

• Trained in Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
• Knowledge of EPA Risk Management Plan.
• Strong trust building with peers and leaders.

Other Information:

The ADN RAMP team will support multiple new API/Dry Products sites in various locations (US and OUS). Significant travel may be…