Senior Director, Engineering - Advanced Therapies

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.

Lilly is currently constructing a cutting-edge facility for the manufacture of new modalities including Gene Therapy in Lebanon, Indiana. This facility will be Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing site focused on the delivery of the next wave of innovative products  will include next-generation manufacturing technologies and advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will deliver improvements in safety, quality, and process performance.

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the team for the startup of a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to start up the facility for both clinical and commercial supply.

• Be a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader and support the broader lead team to:
• Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence.
• Defines the site engineering priorities & roadmap in order to develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the site. This includes leveraging existing Lilly knowledge where necessary, but also incorporating external experiences and learning.
• Serve as a key member of the site HSE Lead Team, ensuring safety focus throughout project delivery and startup.
• Support the project team to deliver the facility as the end user. Providing feedback and support on design decisions, commissioning strategies, startup plan, etc. Collaborate to ensure the right decisions are made to meet project deliverables and longer term strategic goals for the site.
• Develop and adapt organizational structure to provide correct and capable resources and management to deliver the site to a full scale GMP manufacturing scale.
• Ensure the systems are in place and executed to establish the initial qualified and safe state for equipment, processes, utilities and facilities
• Build technical relationships with the relevant corporate departments and sponsors strategic corporate initiatives at a site level.

• Continue to define and support the site engineering priorities & roadmap; integrate the functional agenda with site priorities.
• Ensure the site is in compliance with corporate standards and policies for the engineering function, including applicable environmental, safety, and quality requirements.
• Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally
• Ensure equipment, processes, utilities and facilities remain and operate in a qualified and safe state;
  Ensure that equipment maintenance and utilities operation are performed and documented to the highest standards of safety and quality.
• Manage the site investment processes for assets (planning, prioritization, resourcing, project management, capital accounting and reporting). Own the development and delivery of the capital investment plan in accordance with the site objectives for new products, recapitalization of assets, and facility modernization.
• Ensure that a robust control system exists to manage the business, identify compliance issues and escape issues…