Global Automation Project Lead​/Advisor - Drug Product

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The Automation Project Lead/Advisor is a senior individual contributor member of Global Process Automation & Control Engineering (GPACE), part of Lilly’s Corporate Engineering Technology Center (ETC), with a primary focus on the Parenteral Drug Network (PDN). This role provides technical expertise, program leadership, and discipline stewardship for automation across the Global Parenteral Network, influencing throughout the organization, successfully directing programs involving multiple groups, projects, and locations, and mentoring other engineers in automation engineering capability and career development.

GPACE provides automation, measurement, and process control solutions and serves as a technical resource for training, standards, capital project delivery, and Lilly’s standard automation platforms; GPACE’s primary customers are global manufacturing and development sites, Corporate IT, MQIT, and Global Facilities Delivery (GFD). This role requires demonstrated expertise in Rockwell Automation platforms, OT/IT integration, GMP automation compliance, and project delivery, with particular emphasis on supporting project conceptual stages, leading automation design on major capital projects, optimizing project delivery approaches through replication and best practices, and driving the long‑term automation technology and governance strategy for the Global Parenteral Network.

• Provide enterprise‑level technical and discipline leadership for automation across the Global Parenteral Network; set the strategic direction for automation standards, architecture, and technology; own and govern tools, engineering standards, master specifications, and best practices for the PDN automation discipline; lead communities of practice and facilitate shared learning; and provide authoritative direction during project conceptual stages and profiling, ensuring design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non‑value‑add complexity.
• Lead the design and delivery of automation for complex major capital projects across the Global Parenteral Network, providing authoritative project execution directive and governing the Design Delivery Gate Review process; lead and approve delivery strategies, quality assessments, and CSV and C&Q verification plans; resolve technical issues; and partner with GFD, A&E firms, and outsource partners to ensure successful Automation Project Management structures are in place across the PDN portfolio.
• Successfully direct programs involving multiple groups, projects, and locations across the Global Parenteral Network automation portfolio; provide technical mentoring and career development coaching to engineers at all levels within GPACE, including Automation Engineers, Automation Leads, and Automation Program Leads; ability to resolve the most complex technical and project conflicts among senior stakeholders; champion health and safety, diversity and inclusion, ethics, and compliance;
  
  and influence throughout the organization to embed automation best practices and raise the collective capability of the PDN automation engineering community.
• Work safely and continually improve both people and equipment safety; champion health and safety, ethics, and compliance in all activities; coach and mentor others within GPACE and at project sites; and demonstrate the ability to work across multiple cultures and organizations, building strong cross‑functional relationships with sites, Corporate Engineering,…