Engineer - Automation Engineering – Historian Admin and Data Architect - Lilly Medicine Foundry

About the role

The Engineer - Automation Engineering will work as a member of the Automation Engineering Department at Eli Lilly, Foundry. The engineer will provide automation support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects. Process Automation is core to delivering a right first time facility start up and continued support of ongoing manufacturing operations into the future.

Responsibilities

• Mentor process control team, including design, controls philosophy, implementation and commissioning
• Process control work implementation and coordination
• Develop and implement the Automation Engineering Project Plan
• Techically collaborate with Site Area leads and System Integrator including Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, DCS Application Software, Test Specifications to ensure Data historization and architecture is considered
• Provide periodic status updates to Project Management
• Work with Engineering, Operations and many cross functional groups to trouble shoot issues, making changes to the site data historian system (OSI PI) in line with site change control procedures and site standards, responding to system events and performing routine system maintenance checks
• Maintain Data Historian System health and respond to issues as they arise
• Develop standard operating procedures, work instructions and other job aids to ensure the appropriate level of documentation is in place to train on, maintain and operate OSI PI, alarm management and alarm notification systems
• Provide subject matter expertise on data historian systems design, development, installation, testing, validation, and lifecycle support
• Design, configuration, and testing of the platform (OSI PI). This includes:
• OSI PI Server Infrastructure
• OSI PI Integration with Emerson DeltaV DCS solution
• OSI PI Interfaces with other systems (e.g. BMS, PLCs, Remote IO)
• OSI PI Asset Frame design and build
• Other OSI PI related solutions such as PI Vision
• Implement and support electronic systems (such as plant historians) used to capture process automation related production data
• Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards including the development and execution of validation strategies and associated documentation
• Automation support for capital projects including new product introductions
• Promote the use of automation to improve productivity, operational efficiency and compliance
• Develop a 'network' of corporate contacts and leverage corporate expertise when needed

Qualifications

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering and experience in Automation Engineering, preferably in major pharmaceutical manufacturing
• 5+ years working experience in Biopharma engineering, operations, or manufacturing

Skills

• Experience in design, development, commissioning and qualification of highly automated greenfield manufacturing sites utilizing SCADA, DCS and MES systems (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade, etc)
• Experience with:
• OSI PI and related applications
• Cybersecurity and IOT considerations when managing systems
• Awareness of integrating other process automation systems such as DeltaV, BMS, PLC/HMI and similar control systems in a manufacturing environment
• Industrial communication protocols such as BACnet/IP, modbus, HART, OPC DA & UA, Profibus, Ethernet/IP, RIO
• Systems performing backup and restore, disaster recovery
• Experience of developing documents with electronic document management system (Kneat, Valgenesis, ALM)
• Configuration and support of alarm management systems such as LogMate, Win911
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis methodologies

Benefits

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).

Pay

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $167,200.

Schedule

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).