Engineer - Ts/ms - Product/process

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Suzhou Manufacturing-苏州工厂, China

This role is for an Engineer in Technical Services/Manufacturing Support (TS/MS) at Eli Lilly's Suzhou manufacturing site. The primary focus is on providing technical support for product and sterile manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include overseeing process capability, yield, and identifying sources of variation, managing process mass balance, understanding control strategies and their impact on critical quality attributes, performing routine process monitoring and assessments, and owning product/process related deviations, complaints, CAPAs, and batch records. The role also involves educating staff, ensuring procedures are followed, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external experts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for ensuring for its area of expertise that complex process issues are addressed in a structured and resolved manner and, if necessary, scaled to the Secondary Loop.
  2. Supports product process and sterile manufacturing process related studies and validation activities due to change or project.
  3. Overseeing process capability (process in control and capable) and yield variables, including:
  4. Understand the Operational Control Strategies and own the process /product related portions of the Control Strategy including how the process parameters and other input variables (e.g. CPP and CIPC) can potentially impact the Critical Quality Attributes (CQA),as well as the historic and potential failure modes for the process and their associated countermeasures (e.g. iMCS).
  5. Owning product/process related deviations, complaints, corrective and preventative actions, and changes. Providing expert process knowledge in all investigations. Ensuring changes to process have no adverse impact on product quality.

Skills

Required

  • Process engineering
  • Manufacturing support
  • Technical support
  • Process validation
  • Quality attributes
  • Process control
  • Deviation management
  • CAPA
  • Batch record management
  • Problem-solving
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • HSE procedures

Nice to have

  • Sterile manufacturing
  • Process capability analysis
  • Yield optimization
  • Root cause analysis
  • Change control