Associate Director-Engineering

About the role

This is an individual contributor role within DME Digital Engineering Platforms. It is grounded in the maintenance, reliability, and asset management domain, not a traditional IT or people management position.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a global subject matter expert for GMARS (Maximo), providing discipline leadership and business process oversight for maintenance engineering.
• Drive adoption and effective utilization of GMARS across all Lilly manufacturing sites by partnering directly with site maintenance and reliability teams to understand their operational needs, resolve system issues, and champion best practices.
• Consult with site engineering and maintenance groups globally on maintenance assessments, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and productivity improvements to enhance maintenance effectiveness and equipment reliability.
• Develop, manage, and continuously improve dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and reports using Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and Excel to provide actionable operational insights.
• Analyze maintenance and reliability trends — such as work order backlog aging, PM compliance, equipment failure rates, and material usage patterns — to identify improvement opportunities and support data-driven decision-making across the global M&R community.
• Evaluate and implement new Maximo capabilities (e.g., mobile work execution, condition-based maintenance, inspection forms, IoT integration) to modernize maintenance operations and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Partner with IT teams on system upgrades, enhancements, testing, and deployment of new GMARS releases, translating maintenance business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Ensure data integrity (ALCOA+) within GMARS and compliance with GMP/GLP regulatory standards applicable to pharmaceutical maintenance operations.
• Create and maintain engineering standards, guidance documents, training materials, and best practices for the global maintenance and reliability community.
• Influence the M&R community through the GMARS Community of Practice and Global Maintenance Leadership forum. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including Lean programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline with a minimum of 10 years' experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management roles.
• Demonstrated experience configuring, administering, or serving as a functional lead for IBM Maximo or a comparable enterprise CMMS/EAM platform.
• Demonstrated experience with maintenance and reliability principles including preventive/predictive maintenance strategies, equipment reliability analysis, work order lifecycle management, and physical asset management.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting is essential. Working knowledge of SQL for querying relational databases and demonstrated experience building dashboards and reports using business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or other GMP/cGMP-regulated manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• CMRP (Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional), CRL (Certified Reliability Leader), or PE (Professional Engineer) certification preferred.
• Experience supporting multi-site or global CMMS/EAM operations, including platform consolidation or large-scale implementation projects.
• Familiarity with condition-based maintenance technologies (vibration analysis, thermography, lubrication analysis, ultrasonic detection) and their integration with CMMS workflows.
• Experience with Maximo application areas such as Inventory Management, Inspection Forms, Automation Scripting, or OSLC/REST API integrations.
• Understanding of IT concepts relevant to CMMS support: requirements gathering, system testing (UAT), relational data modeling, and system integration fundamentals.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines or reporting architectures that connect CMMS data to enterprise analytics platforms (e.g., data warehouses, lakehouses, or BI semantic layers).
• Experience developing training content and delivering end-user training for CMMS/EAM systems.
• Understanding of regulated document management practices and data integrity frameworks (ALCOA+).
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence outcomes across sites and functions.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively with minimal daily direct supervision.

Skills

• Hands-on understanding of maintenance business processes, equipment reliability programs, and physical asset lifecycle management within regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to extract, analyze, and present maintenance and reliability data to drive operational decisions.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and Excel.
• Comfort working in Excel with large datasets and proficiency in additional languages is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits; life insurance and death benefits; time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits.

Pay

The anticipated wage for this position is $117,000 - $171,600.

Schedule

This position requires on-site presence at Indianapolis, IN (Lilly Corporate Center or Lilly Technology Center) or at an existing Lilly manufacturing site in the U.S. or EU. Candidates must be willing and able to relocate if not already based at one of these locations. Fully remote work is not available.