Senior Principal, Process Safety Engineer - Lilly Medicine Foundry

Senior Principal, Process Safety Engineer - Lilly Medicine Foundry

Location:

Lebanon, IN (requires flexibility to work from Indianapolis throughout 2025 and 2026).

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, dedicated to discovering and delivering life‑changing medicines, improving disease understanding, and supporting communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

• Identify opportunities to enhance process safety performance through opportunities to influence and advance individual and group behaviors and culture.
• Provide technical expertise for process safety activities, that may include: combustible dust, emergency management, risk assessments, facility siting, EPA RMP (Risk Management Program), etc.
• Serve as a technical expert for capital projects and facility/equipment design, including participation in hazard assessments for design and pre‑commissioning.
• Develop and implement process safety programs/procedures and training.
• Influence, coach, and mentor key cross‑functional partners to ensure Process Safety Management programs are successfully executed.
• Lead and/or participate in select governance, project and committee meetings.
• Participate in corporate and regulatory compliance audits and inspections; interact with regulators, auditors and customers during assessments; lead efforts to address gaps from these audits/inspections.
• Own and/or coordinate Process Safety Management element reviews/site self‑assessments.
• Support the site event management process by assessing process safety events, participating in the investigation process and completing all assigned event actions.
• Support the site change management process by reviewing and leveling change requests and completing all assigned change actions.
• Lead and/or participate on Corporate Teams to develop guidelines &/or tools that enhance Process Safety Management performance.
• Build relationships and benchmark with external Process Safety Management resources to bring an external focus.

• Minimum 6‑8 years of safety or related experience supporting chemical processes/operations
• Solid technical expertise/understanding of chemical unit process operations; OSHA PSM (Process Safety Management) and EPA RMP regulatory requirements; PSM/RMP elements and tools (Hazard Assessments, Facility Siting, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of change management and its impact to process safety.
• Knowledge of equipment reliability and mechanical integrity concepts/issues.
• Technical writing experience (e.g., procedure/program development and documentation).
• Strong leadership abilities including ability to lead technical teams.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Strong computer application skills.
• Demonstrated abilities to work well with people and achieve results with others.

• Engineering license and/or professional safety certification(s).
• Experience integrating PSM specific issues into capital projects.
• Global process safety auditing experience.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigative techniques, including RCA investigation leadership.

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, occupational safety, or equivalent science degree is required.

• Must complete Learning Plan– Foundry.
• Tasks require entering manufacturing and laboratory areas which require wearing appropriate PPE.
• Must carry a cell phone as position supports 24 hours/day manufacturing.
• NOTE:
  
  final location for this role will be Lebanon, IN site but flexibility to work from Indianapolis will be required throughout 2025 and 2026.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $111,000 - $162,800. Full‑time employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company‑sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits;…