Process Team - Lead Engineer

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We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

This position is in the Indianapolis Device Assembly and Packaging site. The mission of IDAP and Manufacturing at Lilly is to make medicine with safety first and quality always.

The Lead Process Engineer is the equipment expert for all processes supported by the cross functional business area they are assigned. The Lead Process Engineer is responsible for ensuring all equipment in their process area is reliable, remains in a qualified state, and is capable of meeting customer needs while also driving associated continuous improvement effort. The Lead Engineer serves as coach and mentor to Process and Automation engineers on their process team.

This is done by transferring knowledge, supporting when escalated to and by prioritizing and leading projects.

• Ensure a safe working environment by enforcing, educating others, and following HSE policies and ergonomic environment within process team.
• Actively participate in safety-related activities (audits, JSA’s, hazard reviews, etc.) to drive ongoing safety improvement.
• Wear proper personal protective equipment (gloves, steel-toed shoes, safety glasses) as required by local procedures and the activity being performed.
• Take responsibility for the safe design and safe operation of the equipment within the area.

• Obtain technical expertise of equipment and processes in area of responsibility.
• Maintain the equipment flow chart / process flow document, critical process parameters, and Control Strategy for responsible process areas.
• Coach and support process and automation engineers through troubleshooting efforts to resolve equipment and operational problems.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve major equipment and operational problems, particularly problems applicable to multiplate processes or equipment lines. Apply formal problem-solving techniques, including Root Cause Analysis, to resolve equipment issues.
• Analyze and monitor / trend equipment process and controls as a tool for verifying and optimizing equipment performance.
• Participate in cross functional data-based discussions about equipment performance to identify and prioritize improvement initiatives that are aligned with process area business needs (bottleneck analysis, special and common cause downtime elimination, batch to batch startup resolutions).
• Lead equipment related deviation investigations, identify potential equipment failure modes, and coordinate the implementation of appropriate countermeasure for equipment related deviations.
• Coach others on how to maintain the qualified state of the equipment through asset life cycle changes, maintenance work, and interventions.
• Create and ensure equipment related procedures and instructions can be executed as written so that practice matches procedure.
• Support the implementation of and define the scope of changes required due to commercialization modifications and additions in applicable process area.
• Evaluate all engineering activities in process area for impact on the qualified state of the equipment and ensure appropriate methods are leveraged to document changes, maintenance work, and interventions (Change Controls, Work Orders, Service Tickets).
• Lead and participate in IQ / OQ / PQ activities on process equipment.
• Act as user representative for capital initiatives in assigned process team and any other process area based on business needs.
• Lead cross functional teams to define and improve the maintenance strategy for process area.
• Identify and drive improvement opportunities (procedural changes, upgrades, projects, etc.) associated with equipment within process…