Senior MES Engineer - IT Manufacturing

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.

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.

Position Title: Senior MES Engineer - IT Manufacturing

Reporting To: Associate Director – IT Manufacturing

Location: Full-time on-site in Raheen, Limerick

Lilly is currently constructing a Next Generation Biotech Drug Substance Manufacturing Facility in Limerick, Ireland. This facility will be Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing site and will include next generation manufacturing technologies and advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will deliver improvements in safety and quality, and increased productivity and process performance.

Main Purpose and Objectives of Position:

The role will support and develop Manufacturing Execution System (MES) electronic batch records and logbook, associated tools, and system interfaces to fulfil business needs. Deploys existing systems, analyses information, designs, programs and/or implements new systems or enhancements to existing systems in accordance with company standards and guidelines.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work within a team to analyze business processes and needs to recommend or implement changes to systems and/or procedures.
• Work with local and global IT groups, automation and operations teams to support delivery of manufacturing solutions.
• Work with site business areas and IT architects to implement solutions to meet business needs.
• Understand how the manufacturing execution systems and processes integrate with other critical systems like EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) and Delta V.
• Provides training, documentation, and post-implementation support to users of the new application and or systems.
• Coordinates or performs technical testing and installation with appropriate users and systems personnel. Prepares project justification, scope and timeline and ensures project complies with these commitments.
• Ensure compliance with Computer Systems Validation policies, standards, procedures and/or practices.
• Creates and/or follows applicable procedures and standards. Ensures support projects and/or requests are in accordance with the site strategy for applications architecture.
• Participates and/or represents departments in cross- functional, global and/or departmental teams and forums as requested.
• Support site readiness activities to enable site start-up and ongoing operations.

Ability to:

• Communicate effectively and build relationships cross-functionally.
• Take initiative to identify and drive improvements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field (Level 8 or equivalent).
• 5 years’ experience in manufacturing, preferred in pharmaceutical or other regulated industries.
• Manufacturing Execution System platform experience required (Syncade, PharmaSuite, Pas-X) Computer Systems Validation in cGMP regulated operations experience
• Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle.
• cGMP's.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Project Management and leadership skills

Come join our team - Be Creative, Be an Innovator, and most of all, Be Yourself!

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