Sr. Principal Associate - HSE - Waste Programs

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work-but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Global Facilities Management and Engineering Services (GFMES) Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) department provides technical expertise and solutions to a broad and diverse customer base to identify and mitigate workplace HSE risk. We collaborate with business areas to understand their challenges and partner with them to implement right sized operational compliance strategies, management systems and best practices in an effective and efficient manner.

We combine high-quality counsel with decades of practical experience across a wide variety of industries. Our mission is to engage both Lilly employees and our contract partners in the company's goal of achieving an injury-free workplace and ensuring that our business operations contribute to a cleaner, safer environment.

Within GFMES HSE, the Indianapolis Environmental Services (IES) team owns environmental compliance and program execution across the Lilly Indianapolis campuses and supports environmental compliance for designated multi-site and national operations. IES delivers air, water, and waste compliance programs, regulatory agency interface, permitting support, and environmental risk reduction for a large, complex, and rapidly growing manufacturing and research footprint.

** Responsibilities:*
* The GFMES Sr. Principal Associate - Environmental position serves as the senior technical authority and program owner for waste management within the Indianapolis Environmental Services (IES) team. This role sets program direction, establishes standards and governance, and applies senior-level judgment to complex, high-risk, and novel waste issues across hazardous, non-hazardous, universal, and other regulated waste streams generated at the Lilly Indianapolis campuses and designated supported operations.

The position is accountable for the effectiveness of the waste management program, not solely its execution, including compliance assurance, third-party service provider strategy and performance, long-term liability reduction, and the capability of the broader organization to meet waste requirements. The role influences engineering, manufacturing, procurement, sustainability, and site leadership to integrate waste considerations into business and capital decisions and represents IES on waste matters with regulatory agencies and across the GFMES HSE network.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

+ Serve as Program Owner and recognized Subject Matter Expert for hazardous and non-hazardous waste management across supported Indianapolis campuses and designated multi-site operations.

+ Define and advance a multi-year waste management strategy for the Indianapolis site network covering compliance, waste minimization, circularity, vendor strategy, and long-term liability reduction, aligned to Lilly HSE priorities and sustainability commitments.

+ Establish, maintain, and continuously improve waste management standards, procedures, and governance frameworks, including accountability models for activities executed by third parties.

+ Apply senior-level technical judgment to complex, ambiguous, and first-of-a-kind waste issues where clear regulatory precedent does not exist and make defensible recommendations under uncertainty.

+ Ensure compliance with RCRA (40 CFR 260-273), Indiana hazardous waste rules (329 IAC), DOT hazardous materials requirements (49 CFR / HMR), land disposal restrictions, and applicable internal Lilly HSE standards.

+ Own waste determinations, profiles, manifests, land disposal restriction notifications, biennial reports, and generator status documentation, including review and approval of complex or contested determinations.

+ Own strategic and technical relationship with third-party waste service providers, including scope definition, performance standards, cost and invoice governance, non-conformance…