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Position Brand Description:

The design lead in IAPI (Indianapolis Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) is responsible for providing owner/user representation, operational readiness leadership, and/or technical design oversight on large scale (>$5M) capital projects in partnership with Corporate Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering changes to current manufacturing processes to improve the quality, cost, or throughput capabilities of IAPI, and/or

• Leading commercialization efforts to integrate new large molecule insulin products or product variants to IAPI production, and/or

• Delivering site infrastructure projects that enable the IAPI site to achieve business plan targets.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Provide Design Lead oversight as needed, including:

• Establish user requirements and qualification plans to ensure that the equipment/system is appropriate for the intended purpose.

• Establish conceptual, basic, and detailed designs for capital projects. Perform reviews of contracted designs for technical accuracy.

• Feed process knowledge into the process design, utilizing tools such as modelling, historian data, technical reports, and industry literature.

• Provide Owner/User Representation as needed to ensure IAPI Operations or other Owner/Users are appropriately represented in all design, construction and verification activities. May include approvals on behalf of Operations or other Owner/User groups for project documentation, etc.

• Provide Operational Readiness as needed to ensure all site-driven operational readiness deliverables have been identified and performed to meet IAPI business schedule needs. Responsible for ensuring site performs all required activities post-construction to ensure asset is available for use per IAPI production timelines. This may include ensuring SOP/training readiness, organizational readiness, regulatory readiness, SAP preparedness, verification and validation planning and support, etc.

• Provide Project Leadership including:

• Collaborate with internal and external customers to manage integration of assigned projects with other site and network projects

• Provide regular communication to all levels of the organization via formal functional lead / steering teams and other ad hoc mechanisms.

• Develop and manage overall project timelines as well as progress metrics

• Lead cross-functional groups that enables the projects to move from inception to implementation.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

• 5 + years of industry experience

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Previous pharmaceutical manufacturing support experience, and solid understanding of the cGMPs.

• Previous process engineering experience, and/or experience in major capital delivery or project management.

• Previous expertise in bulk chemical processing (expertise with tanks, pumps, piping systems, purification, fermentation, distillation, high purity water systems, etc).

• Well organized, strong communicator.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.

• Expertise working with available technical resources (Corporate Policies and Procedures, Engineering Technical Guidelines, Project Delivery Manual, Master Specifications, drawing management processes, etc).

• PE license and/or PMP certification.

Additional Information:

• Normal working hours are day shift, Monday-Friday. Occasional off-hour coverage may be necessary due to planned implementations or emergency support.

• Periodic updates to Senior Manufacturing Leadership may be required

• Travel is expected to be less than 10%

• Tasks require entering manufacturing and laboratory areas which require wearing appropriate PPE. Makeup cannot be worn in manufacturing areas.

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