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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.

Organization Overview:

For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

Position Brand Description:

The Process Control Engineer provides automation support for manufacturing operations in accordance with appropriate GMP and safety guidelines. This support includes change control implementation, deviation investigation, routine automation computer system support activities, and off hours automation computer system support. The Process Control Engineer also leads non-routine automation computer system support activities, delivers engineering projects to the business, is able to utilize first principles in delivery of these solutions, and can recommend new control strategies for the various chemical processes utilized in manufacturing operations.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

Manufacturing Operations Automation Support

• Provide frontline automation technical support to manufacturing operations for process control system software and platforms.

• Ability to configure process control systems and troubleshoot computer system software.

• Provide a high level of data mining and analysis to identify improvements in the manufacturing process.

• Design and implement automation related changes to manufacturing operations.

• Lead investigation of automation related deviations.

• Perform system support activities (e.g. system backups, performance monitoring, password maintenance, etc.)

• Provide off hours automation support to operations.

• Perform all work in a manner consistent with Lilly policies, procedures, and standards.

• Ability to work in a safe manner and ensure safety of others.

Provide engineering solutions to the business

• Automation design and delivery of new process units.

• Provides project management and technical leadership to projects.

• Oversight of specialists and/or contractors assisting in the delivery of automation solutions.

• Utilizes S88 and fundamental engineering principles in the delivery of automation solutions.

• Is responsible for ensuring that life-cycle plans are developed and executed for automation systems.

Provide recommendations on new control strategies/technologies

• Research and maintain familiarity with various control strategies/technologies.

• Research and maintain familiarity with chemical processes utilized in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Mentor Technicians, Specialists, and Engineers

• Mentor specialists in technical and professional development.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

• Minimum 2 years of industrial experience.

• Teamwork and interpersonal skills.

• Good written and oral communication skills.

• Attention to detail.

Additional Preferences:

• Experience with Distributed Control Systems (DeltaV).

• Ability to configure process control systems and troubleshoot computer hardware.

• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably pharmaceutical or chemical manufacturing for 2+ years.

• Previous experience with manufacturing deviation and change control processes.

• Understanding of S88.

• Familiar with control theory.

Additional Information:

• Able to provide 24 hours per day, 7 days per week on-call support approximately 1 week per month.

• Tasks require entering manufacturing and laboratory areas which require wearing appropriate PPE.

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