Senior Director, Engineering - Advanced Therapies

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 in 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, 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 start up the facility for both clinical and commercial supply.  The Senior Director of Engineering is directly responsible for managing the site engineering function and ensuring it has the necessary capacity, capability and leadership structures in place to deliver the site engineering deliverables in support of the manufacturing plan. They provide administrative and technical leadership for the site engineering function including process engineering, process automation, maintenance, utilities, plant and project engineering, and engineering competencies. They are a member of the Lilly Lebanon Advanced Therapies Site Lead Team and report directly to the Site Head. The Lead Team has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site.  Primarily, the members of the team drive the site toward achieving long term business objectives; they continuously develop the business and the organization for the future bearing in mind corporate objectives and the continuously changing external environment; and they manage issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate/external context. In the project delivery phase and startup phase of the project, the Site Lead Team roles will be fluid and dynamic as we endeavor to support the project delivery, build a new organization, develop and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations, and build the site culture. This will require significant collaboration, creativity and resilience as the site grows to a full scale GMP manufacturing through start up.  Startup Phase: Be a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader and support the broader lead team to: Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence. Defines the site engineering priorities & roadmap in order to develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the site.  This includes leveraging existing Lilly knowledge where necessary, but also incorporating external experiences and learning.   Serve as a key member of the site HSE Lead Team, ensuring safety focus throughout project delivery and startup.    Support the project team to deliver the facility as the end user. Providing feedback and support on design decisions, commissioning strategies, startup plan, etc. Collaborate to ensure the right decisions are made to meet project deliverables and longer term strategic goals for the site. Develop and adapt organizational structure to provide correct and capable resources and