Principal Engineer – Digital Twin Product Owner

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.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but we also develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Lilly is at a critical juncture as we tool up to realize the potential of our product pipeline.  We are building new processing capabilities around the world, and emphasizing emerging, innovative technologies, such as continuous processing, biotech platforms, and advanced data and control systems.  Additionally, we are recapitalizing older assets, and bringing the operational philosophies in line with current technologies.  Lilly places a high value on fully automated manufacturing processes, as the quality and operational benefits are baseline expectations of new process design.

Digital Manufacturing Engineering (DME) is part of the Corporate Engineering Tech Center (ETC).  The ETC is a technical resource for training, standards, project implementation, and the center of engineering excellence for the corporation, providing deeply technical resources to solve the most intractable technical problems in manufacturing. DME provides Digital Engineering Platform ownership, OT data integration solutions, engineering data standardization/ownership, and digital manufacturing solutions for Lilly Manufacturing. Our team focuses on connecting our facilities (securely) and leveraging the data from those facilities to deliver digital manufacturing solutions to improve manufacturing productivity, data integrity / compliance, quality, and operational excellence. Digital Manufacturing Technologies include digital twins, computational modeling, edge/IoT, and analytics solutions. Digital Engineering Platforms include CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), GECMS (Global Engineering Content Management System) and many other digital platforms leveraged by engineers across Lilly Manufacturing.

Position Description and Responsibilities:

The Principal Engineer – Product Owner will lead development of technical solutions supporting the Engineering Digital Strategy for Manufacturing and Quality within Lilly, focusing on engineering monitoring solutions (Equipment Performance Monitoring, Asset Qualification Monitoring, AI Monitoring, etc.). The role will be the corporate technical Subject Matter Expert for Lilly engineering on Digital Twins used for monitoring applications. This is a global role, supporting functional initiatives and all Lilly Manufacturing sites globally.

This role is a mid-to-senior level engineering role which requires high learning agility, strong understanding of engineering business processes and problems within pharmaceutical manufacturing, understanding of industrial data, and knowledge of development and use of Digital Twins in a manufacturing environment. The primary focus of the role is product ownership of Digital Twin monitoring solutions that are focused on increasing manufacturing capacity, resilience, compliance, and inspection readiness, along with supporting our operational excellence goals for safety, quality, and supply. These Digital Twin solutions will focus on assets with a goal of improving manufacturing asset performance.

Key Objectives/Deliverables

• Product Owner for Digital Twin monitoring solutions such as Equipment Performance Monitoring, Asset Qualification Monitoring, and AI Monitoring solutions.
• Developing and owning business requirements for engineering monitoring solutions.
• Partner with site engineering teams to develop Digital Twin Monitoring Solution requirements and feature roadmaps.
• Ensure the solutions focus on value generation.
• Drive site adoption of Digital Twin monitoring solutions.
• Partnership with Lilly MQ Tech@Lilly (IT) organization development of Digital Twin Monitoring Solutions.
• Digital Upskilling of broader engineering organization on data concepts and technology uses.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related science field (e.g. Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering).
• Minimum 4 years manufacturing experience in engineering roles.
• Experience developing digital twins of manufacturing processes.
• Experience working with validated systems.
• Experience in pharma or GMP industry.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Knowledge of manufacturing datasets.
• Experience with leveraging data to solve problems within a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work well with different cultures.
• Experience working as a Product Owner on agile projects.

Additional Information

• Monday through Friday Day Shift of 7:30am-4:30pm with some allowance for flex time.
• Location: Indianapolis, IN
• Travel: Limited Domestic and International travel required (less than 10%)

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, 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 are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

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

$97,500 - $181,500

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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