Principal - Engineer - Electrical

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Lilly is constructing an advanced manufacturing facility in Houston, TX, to produce API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) molecules. The site will supply APIs for current and future products, including new modalities. This is a chance to join the startup team for a greenfield manufacturing site. The successful candidate will help build the processes and facility that carry the site into GMP manufacturing operations.

We are seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to support the API manufacturing business in Houston. This engineer will be responsible for site power distribution systems in a GMP environment, including electrical supply and distribution equipment. The role is core to delivering our product pipeline across batch and continuous API production and development.

Responsibilities:

Facility Start-Up

• Provide engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery Team (Lilly's global large scale capital delivery team) with a strong focus on right first time and on schedule facility start-up. This includes design reviews, process safety assessments, user requirements, C&Q support, unit operation shakedown and start-up, and facility operational readiness.

• Contribute to the integrated operational readiness plan and own the elements assigned to you, such as SOP development, maintenance strategy, automation optimization, pre-startup safety reviews, alarm requirements, and performance qualification requirements and protocol development.

• Own the qualified state of equipment for your assigned systems.

• Support initial operations training as the equipment and area SME for assigned systems.

Facility Operations

• Monitor, assess and document equipment performance to maintain ongoing qualification.

• Support development and maintenance of the basis of safety for equipment as required.

• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities related to equipment and processes as a core member of the cross-functional process team.

• Use root cause analysis techniques to investigate process and equipment issues and deliver robust and sustainable corrective and preventative actions.

• Collaborate with maintenance teams to plan and execute scheduled maintenance activities, including equipment calibration and testing.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical preferred).

• 3+ years of relevant experience in electrical design or manufacturing operations.

• 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 or 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.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Deep technical interest and understanding in the field of electrical engineering.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Exposure to facility start-up, commissioning and qualification, or operational readiness work.

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a process team consisting of a diverse group of management, production, science and engineering professionals.

• Creativity to identify improvement opportunities and the tenacity/initiative to see them implemented.

• Guidance/mentoring of others through processes.

• Flexibility to meet business needs.

Other Information

• Occasional travel required, 5 to 10%.

• Required to be working onsite.

• Required to be on-call.

• Occasional shift work may apply.

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

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

$67,500 - $151,800

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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