Engineering Senior Director, Site Expansion

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Pleasant Prairie, WI

This role is for an Engineering Senior Director focused on leading site expansion projects within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. It involves project delivery, operational excellence, and effective communication to ensure seamless integration of new facilities into existing operations. The role requires strong engineering and project management experience, particularly in parenteral manufacturing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver engineering support for major expansion project partnering with Lilly Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network
  2. Ensure thorough and meaningful measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of key project milestones to help drive the business and better serve our customers
  3. Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported
  4. Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project
  5. Building engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering
  • 10+ Engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site
  • Experience from onboarding and/or executing larger capital projects
  • Previous facility or area start up experience
  • Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group including network and/or global functions
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities

Nice to have

  • Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
  • Previous experience with parenteral engineering/manufacturing
  • Previous experience with highly automated equipment
  • Previous experience with combination products, device assembly, pharmaceutical packaging, drug product formulation and filling in aseptic environment
  • Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
  • Previous experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and electronic batch release.
  • Previous experience with Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) Warehouses or AGVs
  • Previous experience with deviation and change management systems including Trackwise