Kilo Lab Technician

About the role

The Lilly Medicine Foundry Kilo Lab Technician actively supports start-up activities to bring manufacturing equipment into service. The Technician becomes an expert in their assigned area and supports the team on the proper operation of the facility. This role requires domestic and international travel to collaborate, train, and learn from sites that currently produce APIs.

Responsibilities

• Adhering to compliance requirements (safety, quality, and environmental) and appropriately escalating any adverse events.
• Operating processes and equipment according to batch records, user manuals, design parameters, standard operating procedures, and work instructions to meet the production schedule.
• Carrying out lab or pilot plant experiments, maintaining notebooks or records, and supplying written summaries to supervisors as needed.
• Accurately dispensing materials as requested and executing written and verbal directions, including material testing, complex experimental designs, and/or process scaling up to pilot plant level.
• Ensuring completion of daily monitoring, testing, and cleaning duties to keep equipment and systems in good operating condition per local and corporate regulatory requirements.
• Assembling and disassembling machinery for processing of materials, demonstrating strong mechanical aptitude.
• Serving as a cultural contributor to site safety culture, promoting compliant operations and positive safety behaviors.
• Supporting troubleshooting and reaction to process upsets, integrating operator input and escalating as appropriate.
• Following all applicable procedures for safety event reporting and documentation, including spill response, issue escalation, and initiating Emergency Response procedures as needed.
• Ensuring adequate communication at shift changeovers and participating in daily shift huddles/meetings to understand and set expectations for daily operational goals.
• Ensuring all area personnel follow cGMP practices, safe work habits, plant dress code, hygiene standards, and housekeeping requirements unique to the work area and job classification.
• Summarizing, preparing, and tabulating data; coordinating activities with other laboratories and support groups.
• Making interpretations of data generated and suggesting subsequent experimentation; offering ways to improve efficiency of time utilization, equipment design, configurations, and process improvements.
• Planning own work schedule and operating with minimal supervision; level of independence increases with experience and equipment familiarity.
• Actively participating in assigned building and area operations such as safety audits, procedure coordination, housekeeping, and continuous improvement projects.
• Understanding and utilizing computer systems and programs for development project activities, including control or automation systems such as Delta V and Pi.
• Using specified company-supplied personal protective equipment (PPE) (e.g., hair and beard coverings, lab coats or gowns, safety shoes, safety glasses, hard hats, etc.) as required.
• Performing clean room gowning and wearing respirators and safety equipment during processing and cleaning of equipment/rooms.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 3+ years of direct manufacturing experience; GMP and/or chemical processing strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated learning agility to operate a variety of new equipment and systems.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and experience working with solvents and large equipment.
• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing, cGMP, or a regulated environment.