Sr. Manager - Process Control & Automation Engineering

About the role

Lilly is seeking a Senior Manager - Process Control and Automation Engineering to join the team at our new advanced manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana. This role is crucial for the startup of a greenfield manufacturing site, providing strategic leadership in automation operations and ensuring compliance with cGMP, Data Integrity, CSV, and corporate engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide tactical, technical, and people leadership for Node-level automation and process control systems in a regulated GMP manufacturing environment.
• Lead multi-disciplinary automation teams, hired automation shift support contractors, and ensure compliance with corporate engineering, quality, cybersecurity, and data integrity standards.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Quality, IT, Engineering, and Site Automation organizations to deliver safe, compliant, and reliable automated systems.
• Safety, Quality & Compliance Champion: Ensure a safe design, installation, operation, and maintenance of automated systems; ensure automation solutions comply with cGMP, Data Integrity, CSV, and corporate engineering standards; drive timely remediation and continuous improvement; ensure alignment with SDLC, validation strategies, and lifecycle management expectations.
• Automation Strategy & Technical Leadership: Define and execute site or program-level automation and process control strategy, aligned with enterprise standards and future manufacturing needs; support Automation Platform roadmap development; own Node automation platform roadmap implementation (DCS, PLC, PAT, MES interfaces, data historians, integration layers); implement Node standardization, replication, and reuse of proven solutions; serve as senior technical authority for complex automation topics and critical issue resolution on his operational node.
• People & Organizational Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop automation engineers, and technical specialists; build high-performing teams through talent development, succession planning, and capability growth; establish clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations; foster collaboration across Central Automation, Operations, Quality, IT, and Engineering partners.
• Governance, Standards & Continuous Improvement: Own and implement automation engineering standards, master specifications, and best practices; drive consistency in automation design, documentation, and execution; promote shared learning, lessons learned, and community-of-practice participation across Nodes; evaluate emerging technologies and lead innovations aligned with business value and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Controls, Chemical, Mechanical), Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in process automation and control systems within a regulated manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Skills & Preferences

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing engineers and technical leads.
• Strong working knowledge of automation platforms (e.g., DCS, PLC, historian, integration technologies).
• Proven experience with cGMP, CSV, Data Integrity, and regulated system lifecycles.
• Advanced degree in Engineering.
• Professional PE License.
• Experience leading automation for large capital projects or greenfield manufacturing sites.
• Strong vendor and system integrator management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational and functional boundaries.
• Experience with enterprise automation standardization and digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Working experience with Industrial Utilities Automation Systems including: Steam Generation and Distribution, Nitrogen Generation and Distribution, Compress Air (Instrument and Process), Chill Water Generation and Distribution, Potable Water Distribution and Process Water Generation and Distribution.
• Working experience with Tank Farm Operations.
• Working experience with Process Wastewater collection and processing.
• Solvent Recovery Operations.