Sr. Principal - Engineer - Reliability

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Houston, TX

This role is for a Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer in a new advanced manufacturing facility for API molecules. The engineer will be responsible for equipment reliability and maintenance strategy, developing reliability metrics, troubleshooting equipment issues, implementing improvements, and developing maintenance strategies to optimize operations, compliance, cost, and efficiency. The role requires collaboration with Process Engineering and expertise in Maximo CMMS, within a GMP/regulated environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, track and maintain reliability metrics such as, but not limited to, Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), downtime, costs, emergency work orders, obsolete parts, Events, etc.
  2. Provide field support to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve equipment issues. Support may be required outside of normal working hours including nights, weekends, and holidays.
  3. Assess/identify opportunities to improve the equipment reliability, recommend solutions, and manage implementation. These opportunities will be a combination of, but not limited to, equipment installation, equipment set-up instructions, operation/utilization of the equipment, maintenance procedures, maintenance servicing issues, spare parts, reducing MTTR, etc.
  4. Develop, implement, and maintain equipment maintenance strategies to optimize its safe operation, compliance (Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE) & Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), cost, and efficiency/effectiveness of Houston assets.
  5. Perform Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and remediation plan because of, but not limited to, Events, abnormal condition during PM, late maintenance activities, costs.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Engineering Technology
  • 5+ years of relevant experience

Nice to have

  • Experience working in a GMP/regulated environment
  • RMIC – Reliability & Maintainability Implementation Certification
  • Maximo CMMS experience

What the JD emphasized

  • GMP/regulated environment