Associate Director – Facilities, Utilities, Maintenance, Engineering (FUME)

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Lilly is currently constructing a cutting edge facility for the manufacture of new modalities including Gene Therapy. At Lebanon, Indiana, this facility will be Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing site focused on the delivery of the next wave of innovative products at Lilly. It will include next-generation manufacturing technologies and advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will deliver improvements in safety and quality, and process performance. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the team for the startup of a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to design, commission and start up the facility for both clinical and commercial supply.    

Main Purpose and Objectives of Position: 

The Associate Director for Facilities, Utilities, and Maintenance is responsible for the supervision of maintenance, utilities, and reliability employees that support the daily operations of the LP2 (Lebanon Plant 2) advanced therapies manufacturing facility.  This includes supervision and development of employees with the purpose of ensuring that equipment, instruments, utilities, and systems are robustly and reliably maintained for use in the manufacturing of advanced therapies drug products.  Additionally, the Engineering Associate Director partners to influence and implement within the engineering organization and across functional disciplines to support the maintenance, utilities, and reliability technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance plan objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Administrative Leadership

• Supervise and coach engineering and maintenance staff, including completing performance reviews and development plans.

• Staffing including recruiting, resource planning, and succession planning.

• Work coordination across maintenance, reliability, and utilities.

• Review and monitor financial performance, commit to meeting targets.

Operational Excellence

• Demonstrate a commitment to environmental, health, and safety.

• Identify, track, and report key indicators of functional performance.

• Ensure team is operating in a state of compliance.

• Develop and implement Maintenance, reliability, and utilities business plan objectives.

• Oversee the development, implementation, and execution of the maintenance program for the facility.

• Remove barriers that impact team performance.

Organizational Capability

• In coordination with Global Engineering and other LP2 engineering areas, set and reinforce standards for appropriate rigor in engineering and maintenance work products and utilization of First Principles.

• 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 LP2, including participation on management sub-teams.

Basic Requirements:

• B.S. in Engineering

• 5+ years of engineering manufacturing-related experience, preferably some biosynthetic drug substance and/or sterile drug product operations and/or maintenance experience

• 2+ years in a leadership position within a manufacturing organization

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.

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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