Process Engineer – Packaging

Responsibilities

• Support and manage the Packaging crucial to Lilly's supply chain.
• Partner with Corporate Automation, Global Packaging & Robotics, Automation Integrators, and Global Facilities Delivery to design, install, and qualify the new LKC Packaging lines.
• Take overall responsibility for the safe design and safe operation of the equipment within the area.
• Lead or participate in qualification activities (including commissioning activities of new equipment or areas).
• Aid in the integration of these lines into the site data collection and SCADA layer.
• Lead activities through the full project lifecycle including design review, FAT, installation, SAT, qualification, and startup support.
• Aid in the integration between Packaging equipment and enterprise manufacturing systems including MES, warehouse management systems, scheduling systems, and site automation platforms.
• Review OEM electrical, controls, and safety designs to ensure compliance with Lilly standards and applicable industry standards (e.g., machine safety, electrical safety, and control panel requirements).
• Aid in automation verification and qualification activities, including IV/OV testing, system integration testing, and startup troubleshooting.
• Support implementation and lifecycle management of Lilly manufacturing platforms such as Global Packaging Platform (GPP), GRIP, GPM, Global Scheduler, and MES integrations.
• Support manufacturing system interfaces including PLCs, HMI/SCADA systems, databases, servers, virtual environments, networks, and middleware platforms.
• Partner with Quality, Operations, Engineering, IT, OEMs, and global platform teams to resolve complex automation and integration challenges during project execution and commercial operations.
• Assist manufacturing system startup readiness activities including PSSR execution, safety verification, automation cutovers, and qualification support.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional team members in roles such as quality, logistics, and crafts personnel.
• Obtain technical expertise of equipment and processes in area of responsibility.
• Establish control charts & monitor/trend operating parameters to verify and optimize equipment performance.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve more difficult equipment and operational problems.
• Utilize formal problem-solving techniques, such as root cause analysis and causal factor charting, to resolve equipment deviations.
• Provide oversight and assist maintenance personnel and engineering techs that support the equipment.
• Evaluate all activities for impact on qualified state of equipment and utilize appropriate tools/processes as necessary (change control, hold, etc.).
• Implement corrections, corrective actions, and countermeasures arising from CAPA’s.
• Participate in Periodic Reviews for equipment.
• Understand equipment reliability issues and performance KPIs.
• Identify and drive improvement opportunities (procedural changes, upgrades, projects, etc.) associated with equipment within the area.
• Plan and coordinate equipment planned downtime windows for equipment improvements and preventative maintenance.
• Compare equipment performance data with other manufacturing sites within the network to determine areas of opportunity.
• Establish & monitor/trend control systems as tool for verifying and optimizing equipment performance.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve more difficult equipment and operational problems.
• Utilize formal problem-solving techniques, including Root Cause Analysis, to resolve equipment issues.
• Provide oversight to Maintenance Tech/Engineering Tech(s) that support the area.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying root causes, implementing robust automation solutions, and improving reliability, quality, and operational performance.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple manufacturing areas and project teams.
• Technically lead and delegate activities to a cross-functional technical team supporting the Packaging lines on medium-large scale projects.
• Proficient and capable of understanding OSHA/regulatory (CFR) requirements and ensuring compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM
• 7+ years of experience as a process engineer in highly automated environment
• Preferred attributes but not required: Technical leadership, strong automation background, strong learning mindset with curiosity, adaptability, and technical aptitude to rapidly acquire new skills and technologies, proven experience delivering engineering projects in both greenfield and brownfield environments, ability to lead first-time processes and navigate a cross-functional team through ambiguity, pharmaceutical cGMP experience and compliance, OSHA and CFR knowledge, project management skills, adequate interpersonal and communications skills to be able to work effectively in a team-based environment, strong knowledge of Studio 5000 and FactoryTalk View SE, understanding of automated vision systems, and robotics, experience in utilizing root cause analysis techniques for the systematic solving of problems.