Associate Director - Process Control Engineering (Automation) - IAPI at Eli Lilly and Company

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The Engineering Associate Director is responsible for the supervision of the process control engineers and technicians that support the daily operations of the facility. The Associate Director is also responsible for the productivity and development of the employees with the purpose of ensuring that reliable and compliant control applications and systems are used in the manufacturing of API drug substance.  Additionally, the Associate Director partners to influence and implement within the process control organization and across functional disciplines to support the process control technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance objectives.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

Administrative Leadership

• Supervise and coach process control team, including completing performance reviews and development plans
• Staffing, including recruiting, resource planning, and succession planning
• Process control work coordination
• Review and monitor financial performance; commit to meeting targets
• Develop and implement the Process Control Engineering Business Plan.

Operational Excellence

• Demonstrate a commitment to environmental, health, and safety (including PSM)
• Identify, track, and report key indicators of functional performance
• Ensure team is operating in a state of compliance

Organizational Capability

• In coordination with automation and compliance consultants, set and reinforce standards for appropriate rigor in automation work products.
• Assure focus by engineers and completion of critical assignments with appropriate monitoring and reporting
• Be a fully active member of the flow leadership in running IAPI (Indianapolis Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient), including participation on management sub-teams.

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering (preferably Chemical Engineering) or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of process control engineering manufacturing-related experience

Additional Preferences:

• State licensure as a Professional Engineer is not required but is encouraged. 
• Ability to instill teamwork within the department and demonstrate key interpersonal skills.
• Ability to ensure appropriate technical depth and rigor with departmental technical deliverables.
• Successful application of organizational models through recruiting and retention of employees.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to network with others as appropriate.
• Ability to provide innovative solutions to plant, divisional, and corporate issues and leverage ideas from other functional areas.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to various audiences, particularly one-on-one coaching and feedback with direct reports.
• Ability to function in a team environment as a leader and as a member of management teams.

Other Information:

• This position serves an 8-hour Monday through Friday work schedule. Situations may arise where off-schedule work, both on-site and off-site, will be required.
• This position requires less than 10% travel on an annual basis.
• This position requires 24/7 availability with a cell phone.
• Tasks require entering manufacturing and laboratory areas which require wearing appropriate PPE.

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