Senior Automation Engineer

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.

Responsibilities:

• Specifically, this role will entail the following scope:
• Provide automation support and oversight to design and delivery of Lilly's new Research Triangle Park facility.
• Manage system integrators to deliver all aspects of Automation for Lilly's new Raleigh based facility.
• Support key corporate initiatives such as life cycle management, Engineering information management, and cyber security
• Evaluate new technology and innovation trends leading to the development of proof of concepts and sharing of use cases for application within Lilly.
• Drive automation governance and replication across the Global Parenteral Network and the Global Packaging Network for Automated Syringe Inspection equipment and Robotic palletizing cells, architecture, and custom Automation/IT systems and solutions developed by third party vendors.
• In addition, this role will work to optimizes and improve project automation engineering approaches by combining technical expertise, best practices, engineering standards, and project delivery expertise.

Key Objectives/Deliverables

• Safety – Work safely and continually looks for improvements in personnel and equipment safety, ensure safe design and operation of new equipment, ensure automation design reflects safety concerns for operations and maintenance.
• Automation Design – Lead and support project profiling and design as needed.  Ensure project design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non-value add complexity.  Use replication and best practices to optimize project cost.
• Project Delivery – Perform, review, and provide technical automation guidance to project C&Q/Verification teams to ensure on time delivery of project design and qualification documents.
• Provide clear documentation for delivered solutions and processes; work closely with system SMEs and site Quality while supporting computerized systems verification processes in a GxP environment.
• Must be able to execute work independently, work with various support teams across the organization and be able to oversee and lead activities to ensure that automated cGMP equipment, facilities, and utilities perform as intended.
• Lead investigations of automation related issues and incidents to prevent recurrence including the development of corrective/preventative actions.
• Build business processes to support the project scope in alignment with project timelines. Develop detailed specifications and Engineering procedures that affect parenteral workstream.
• Technology & Innovation - Keep current on external trends and practices to evaluate technology for application within Lilly.
• Automation/Control Discipline and Technical Leadership – Partner with colleagues to lead the discipline through solution assessment, replication, and development.  Manage tools, engineering standards, master specifications and best practices. Provide technical coaching and consultation to other Lilly engineers, facilitate shared learning forums. 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related science degree
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in automation machine control, process control, or equivalent work experience in a related field.
• Experienced in delivery, install, commissioning and qualification of automated systems including source code management and review, test case execution of automated equipment, communicating with vendors and all tiers of leadership
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Demonstrated ability to work safely and in a sterile environment
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more automation platforms, preferable Rockwell Automation Systems, Fanuc Robotics.
• Experienced in B&R automation PC, FactoryTalk and/or Siemens PLC, HMI, SVIM vision processor, Cognex system, configurable device, upper level network system troubleshooting
• Significant experience and strong problem-solving skills in measurements, control (process and/or manufacturing), control systems, integration, and data integrity assurance.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to manage people and projects to deliver a common set of objectives
• Knowledge of GMP’s and pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Knowledge in Microsoft Operating Systems
• Knowledge in Databases, SQL Scripting experience
• Experienced in writing investigations, Veeva, RCI, audit support

Additional Information

• Expectation that the position will be based out of Raleigh, North Carolina
• 8-hour days - Monday through Friday, overtime and some weekend/holiday may be required for project support.

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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