Engineering Associate Director; AD - Device Assembly

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. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life‑changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first.

We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing over $3 billion to create a new state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing site, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The brand‑new facility will utilize the latest technology to increase the company’s manufacturing capacity in parenteral (injectable) medications, device assembly and packaging operations. This is an exciting once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site.

The Lilly Kenosha County site will be built using the latest high‑tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!

The Engineering Associate Director (AD)- Device Assembly is responsible for the staffing, training, and leadership of the engineering group (both process, automation and maintenance) supporting asset delivery, process development, commissioning, qualification, validation and startup of the packaging lines in the site expansion project. After startup, the Engineering AD will be responsible for supporting the day‑to‑day engineering activities as well as planning for the 3 - 6‑month horizon.

The Engineering AD is expected to lead by example and provide coaching to others in the areas of safety, quality, engineering, optimization and continuous improvement.

• Manage Engineering and Maintenance support for Commercial Manufacturing Operations:
• Manage team of process and automation engineers and maintenance technicians providing Front Line support in one or more of the following areas:
• Parenteral Operations (Parts Washers, Autoclaves, Formulation, Isolator – Syringe Filler, Automated Visual Inspection)
• Device Assembly
• Packaging Operations
• Warehouse and Logistics (Autonomous Guided Vehicles, Automatic Storage and Retrieval System, etc.)
• Site Utilities (HVAC, Steam Water, Gases, etc.), BMS, Chambers (i.e. Refrigerators, Incubators, Cold Rooms, etc.)
• Ensure appropriate technical and maintenance support for manufacturing or utilities processes of the assigned area.
• Guide SMEs that will provide coaching/assistance to Front Line Engineers and drive increased equipment reliability and uptime, continuous improvements, support capital delivery, among other key strategic initiatives.
• Understand, ensure and decision making based on engineering standards and policies, procedures and business plan that impact the ability of the team members to meet performance objectives.
• Provide Functional Leadership to engineering and maintenance representatives by coaching the following business processes:
  Change Management, Deviations/Investigations, Equipment and Process Improvements, Process Controls and Variability Reduction
• Lead, support and peer review root cause analysis around equipment and operational events, support complex change controls and quality investigations with strong Root Cause analysis focus.
• Prioritize teams work to optimize equipment output and impact, ensuring proactive and continuous improvement mindset for process and operational improvements and optimization.
• Apply statistical thinking and data analysis methods to understand process variability and capability to drive improvements.
• Support regulatory inspections.
• Utilize control systems to monitor, trend and verify equipment performance and downtime. Identify and Optimize unit operation cycle time, yield performance, loop tuning, recipes, etc.
• Support or lead…