Visual Inspection Mentor at Eli Lilly and Company

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Organization Overview: 

The mission of Technical Services/Manufacturing Sciences (TS/MS) is to provide scientific leadership and technical support for manufacturing to make medicine today and tomorrow.  The Visual Inspection Mentor is a key member in a cross-functional team who provides technical guidance for inspection operations and projects involving existing and new inspection processes.    

The Indianapolis Parenteral Manufacturing TS/MS Visual Inspection Mentor will provide technical oversight and guidance across the manufacturing site related to visual inspections processes. The role will regularly interact with peers within the network and in Global TS/MS to share learning and ensure strategies are in line with technical, quality, and regulatory guidance, while supporting business expectations.  The Visual Inspection Mentor will also own technical capability building at the sites to ensure capabilities are in place to meet business objectives. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical oversight regarding defect classification, visual inspection technique, and visual inspection qualification program to support production operations 

• Perform root cause analysis and apply scientific principles and understanding related to defect creation, prevention, and detection. 

• Author, review, or approve technical documents, including personnel qualification strategies, control strategies, investigations, change controls, expert opinions, qualifications, procedures, defect classifications, personnel qualification strategies, control strategies, technical studies, etc. 

• Interact with regulators, customers, or other outside stakeholders on business issues or in support of internal and external agency audits. 

• Develop, monitor, and appropriately react to established statistically based metrics in real-time to assess process variability and capability.

• Support the development and implementation of process improvements to improve process control, yield, and/or productivity. 

• Technical writing and communication skills are used daily and the ability to effectively communicate and transfer knowledge to all levels of the organization is essential.   

• Ability to train/coach others and cross functionally influence is important in this role. 

Basic Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree is required.

• Minimum of 2-5 years directly supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing or quality, with experience in visual inspection of pharmaceutical products. 

Additional Information:

• Ability to influence and communicate to diverse groups on complex regulatory, business, or technical issues within the site and function. 

• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment. 

• Experience in statistics and stackable tolerance analysis. 

• Builds relationships with internal and external customers and partners. 

• Proficiency in delivering highly complex tasks and/or tasks that are highly cross-functional. 

• Demonstrated Project Management skills and ability to coordinate complex projects. 

• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills. 

• Strategic thinking and ability to balance short term needs with long term business evolution. 

• This position will be in Indianapolis, but could require some travel, less than 10%, including international. 

• This position is day shift, Monday-Friday, with off hours and weekend support as needed. 

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