Instrumentation Technician

About the Role

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.

We serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. Lilly is currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for production of API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) molecules located in Lebanon, IN.

This facility is Lilly’s largest investment in manufacturing capacity and is intended to provide APIs for current and future products, including new modalities. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the startup team for a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to build the processes and facility to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.

The Instrumentation Tech is a key role responsible for the oversight of all maintenance activities to maintain assets in compliance with cGMP and to ensure equipment is available, maintained, and repaired to the applicable standards.

The technician will be, at a minimum, responsible for the following:

• Servicing, troubleshooting, and maintaining instrumentation in LP1 that includes systems such as high purity water, compressed air, steam, chilled water, glycol, city water.
• Engage in site calibration program.
• Displaying good documentation practices.
• Installation and maintaining of new and used equipment.

• Support a safety‑first, quality always maintenance team.
• Ability to respond quickly and proactively to changing priorities within a reasonable timeframe.
• Cross‑functionally collaborate with Global Facility Delivery (GFD) to support project delivery.
• Follow maintenance procedures such as Tagout (LOTO), Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) work plans.
• Review data loading into CMMS and managing workflow for data changes.
• Support C&Q activities, including but not limited to, initial calibrations, shakedowns, initial/operational verification, and/or equipment qualification.
• Use the Workday system for time entry and personal information.
• Fully use Performance Management (PM) to manage objectives and development that align with the organizational and corporate priorities.
• Perform initial calibrations of instruments.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance and calibration on Process Instrumentation, Temperature, Pressure, Flow and Automatic Control Valves.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose Process Instrumentation Equipment problems and make appropriate repairs to minimize downtime.
• Perform modifications and new installations of Process instrumentation.
• Ability to read P &  and schematics.
• Highly attention to details especially in GMP documentation.

• Support site instrumentation and system change controls, including but not limited, capital projects, site process improvements, C&Q activities, calibrations, shakedowns, initial/operational verification, and/or equipment qualification.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on Process Instrumentation, Temperature, Pressure, Flow and Automatic Control Valves.
• Ensure ongoing continuous maintenance system improvements. Support communications between Operation shifts, Maintenance, Engineering, Automation, and site customers to keep them informed of any issues that could affect them.
• Identify and implement…