Sr. Principal Engineer- Utilities

About the role

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. Lilly is currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for monoclonal antibodies, and bioconjugates in Goochland County, Virginia. This facility is intended to provide capacity for current and future products. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the leadership team for the startup of a manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to build the organization, the facility and the culture to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe working environment by following safety rules and helping improve the safety culture.
• Provide clean system engineering expertise as an active member of area team.
• Maintain clean system unit operations and equipment in a qualified and reliable state.
• Establish and/or monitor the critical parameters for all clean systems to ensure that these are in control.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve difficult unit operations, equipment and operational issues.
• Evaluate all activities for impact on qualified state of equipment and utilize appropriate tools as necessary.
• Supporting the grey utility Facility Start-Up: Provide engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery Team with a strong focus on right first time and on-schedule facility start‑up, including design reviews, process safety assessments, user requirements, C&Q support, unit operation shakedown and start‑up, facility operational readiness.
• Define and own relevant aspects of the overall integrated operational readiness plan (e.g., SOP development, maintenance strategy, automation optimization, pre‑startup safety reviews, alarm requirements, performance qualification requirements/protocol development, etc.).
• Own the qualified state of equipment for respective area of responsibility.
• Develop and implement unit operation and equipment control strategy to sustain and optimize utilities systems in support