Engineering Senior Director, Site Expansion

About the role

The Engineering Sr. Director, Site Expansion role is a critical role to ensure we continue to make progress towards our mission and our culture. This role will play a critical role in leading the seamless integration of a large site expansion project into the site commercial operation focusing on operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering support for major expansion project partnering with Lilly Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network
• Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of key project milestones to help drive the business and better serve our customers
• Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported
• Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project
• Building engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources
• Partner closely with Engineering leader at the site to ensure alignment between ongoing operations and project needs
• Drive Operational Excellence and Project Management alignment
• Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions and inform stakeholders
• Anticipate and facilitate the resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables
• Ensure appropriate governance in place to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution to drive most important work
• Monitor the progress on project milestones and collaborate with site project management function ensuring alignment on LKC integrated project schedule and take action to escalate/remove barriers.
• Support site to facilitate consistent processes and efficient planning.
• Effective Communication
• Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to ensure alignment of strategic objectives, planning and execution
• Establish and manage documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and key modifications in time, budget, scope, and risks to key stakeholders
• Influences senior management, internal and external customers to ensure effective stakeholder management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 10+ Engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site
• Experience from onboarding and/or executing larger capital projects
• Previous facility or area start up experience
• Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group including network and/or global functions
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities

Preferred attributes

• Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
• Previous experience with parenteral engineering/manufacturing
• Previous experience with highly automated equipment
• Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
• Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
• Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release.
• Previous experience with Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs
• Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise