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

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  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.

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.

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