Ppm Engineer - Packaging - Dry External Manufacturing

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Indianapolis, IN

This role focuses on managing printed packaging materials (PPMs) for contract manufacturers in the pharmaceutical space, ensuring they meet technical and company standards. Responsibilities include managing layouts, metadata, artwork development, and technical changes, as well as participating in testing, investigations, and projects, including digital transformation initiatives within packaging.

What you'd actually do

  1. Management of layouts: templates with the graphic and technical elements to ensure proper artworks development and function on the packaging line.
  2. Maintenance of the BLUE metadata for the layouts and its connection with the rest of the components of the PPM specification (artworks and specifications) in the system.
  3. Owner of the Qualified Format List (QFL), key document for artworks development with regional groups.
  4. Work with Global Packaging during the first’s steps of a CM initiation to make sure that DRY-EM and/or Global layouts are identified or developed, so that artworks can be developed in a timely manner.
  5. Be involved in testing activities and qualifications at the CMs.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, or related field with experience in PPM management or other similar technical background.
  • 2+ years of experience in printed packaging materials, or packaging in the pharmaceutical space
  • Management of layouts
  • Maintenance of metadata
  • Owner of Qualified Format List (QFL)
  • Work with Global Packaging
  • Testing activities and qualifications
  • Owner of Site Technical Changes (STCs)
  • Work closely with the Packaging Coordinator and Specification Coordinator
  • Participate in the materials specifications management
  • Member of the Specifications Change Review Board (sCRB)
  • Holistic view of all PPM projects
  • Lead /support packaging investigations
  • Lead/ support packaging projects
  • digital transformation

Nice to have

  • Fluent English.
  • Willingness to travel up to 40%.
  • Technical approach.
  • Experience in packaging engineering (preferred) or TSMS within a packaging plant, ideally in dry products.

What the JD emphasized

  • 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 and 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.