At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Lilly’s Purpose

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing around the world to create new state-of-the-art manufacturing site’s and continue expanding our existing facilities to created capacity required to continue with our mission. The brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.

Position Brand Description:

As System Engineer on the Change Team, the major function of this position is to design and develop IT solutions (integrated process, applications, data and technology) to business problems. You will use your technical expertise, analytical skills, and leadership abilities to create key components for these systems, evaluate different technologies, and work closely with other members of the IT and Business teams to ensure that the systems are implemented correctly and effectively.

Specifically at the Branchburg site, this position would aid the site adoption and continued enhancement of new and existing systems including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), progressing the site’s paperless manufacturing objective and Digital Plant Strategy. It will also partner cross-functionally in line with the Manufacturing Strategy for Operational Excellence (MSOE) to enable the Site mission and vision, ensuring IT deliverables are delivered on time and in accordance with applicable Lilly Quality Standards and Practices.

How You Will Succeed:

•  Bring your technical knowledge and experience to design, develop and influence the implementation and enhancements to the MES solution and associated systems.

• Act as core member of the Change Over Process team to help assess required changes and improvements to systems that support manufacturing.

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the business processes at Branchburg. Apply knowledge to assigned solutions to support the business processes. Work with Process Engineers, Automation Engineers, Operations, Quality, and TS/MS evaluate changes to the processes and impact to e-systems.

• Drive the site adoption of assigned solutions, ensuring alignment with Site and Tech at Lilly strategy, and leveraging awareness of internal and external trends in partnership with the Business SMEs.

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts (global and local), MES support team, Site Delivery Lead to establish the technical vision and analyze enhancement road map and align with Manufacturing schedule.

• Must be able to evaluate the organization's needs, anticipate potential issues, and create key components that ensures the systems and architecture meets the requirements.

• Must have a strong business understanding and demonstrated business learning agility e.g. manufacturing processes, technical transfers, engineering standards.

• Must be able to communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence decision making at senior leadership level.

• Must be able to stay up-to-date with new technologies and evaluate which ones are best suited for the organization's needs.

• Critically evaluate user requests and use technical and process knowledge to determine underlying true business needs.

• Ensure adherence to all quality, compliance, data integrity requirements.

• Provide ongoing communication on issues, and major deliverables to management and staff.

• Pursue an injury free workplace and minimize our environmental impact.

• Review and approve documentation related to areas of responsibility (Validation Lifecycle documents, SOPs, policies, executed IQPQ protocols, etc.) as appropriate.

• Stay active and current in business technology trends, direction and innovation related to business process and technology areas of focus by participating in external forums, conferences, and other venues as necessary.

What You Should Bring

• Experience with providing technical guidance to other members of the organization, including developers, project managers, and technical support staff.

• Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure that the organization's systems remain competitive and effective.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders and articulate complex technical concepts.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex technical issues.

• Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Experience with Computer System Validations.

• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems and how to integrate with Automation and other Local/Global IT platforms.

• Demonstrable experience in tools / platforms such as MES Syncade and Integration technologies enabling data flow with downstream systems (e.g. OSI PI, Data Lakes, Process Monitoring systems such as JMP, Tableau, Power BI)

Your Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience working with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing systems (e.g. Data solutions, MES technologies such as Rockwell Automation Pharma Suite, Emerson Syncade, Siemens Camstar, or Werum PAS-X).

• Minimum 3+ years experience leading or supporting the Computer System Validation of IT platforms including Data Integrity compliance.

About the Organization:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials.

We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Additional Information -

Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Lilly”) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( LillyRecruitingCompliance@lists.lilly.com ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

As a condition of employment with Eli Lilly and Company and its subsidiaries in the United States and Puerto Rico, you must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination satisfactory to the company (subject to applicable law).

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Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Lilly”) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( LillyRecruitingCompliance@lists.lilly.com ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

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