Eli Lilly is looking for an Engineer - Automation Engineering to provide automation support for operating areas and capital projects, ensuring right-first-time facility startup and continued support of manufacturing operations. The role involves acting as a key technical expert to influence and implement within the process control organization and across functional disciplines, supporting the process control technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance objectives. The engineer will also serve as the main Data Architect to ensure proper data contextualization and democratization of operational data for compliance and data analytics.
Requirements
- Experience in design, development, commissioning and qualification of highly automated greenfield manufacturing sites utilizing SCADA, DCS and MES systems (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade,etc).
- Experience with: OSI PI and related applications
- Cybersecurity and IOT considerations when managing systems
- Awareness of integrating other process automation systems such as DeltaV, BMS, PLC/HMI and similar control systems in a manufacturing environment
- Industrial communication protocols such as BACnet/IP, modbus, HART, OPC DA & UA, Profibus, Ethernet/IP,RIO
- Systems performing backup and restore, disaster recovery
- Configuration and support of alarm management systems such as LogMate, Win911
Responsibilities
- Provide Automation, Process Controls and Data Historian expertise and support historian systems operating areas across site.
- Function as the main Data Architect to ensure proper data contextualization and democratization of operational data for compliance and data analytics.
- Technically collaborate with Site Area leads and System Integrator including Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, DCS Application Software, Test Specifications to ensure Data historization and architecture is considered.
- Work with Engineering, Operations and many cross functional groups to trouble shoot issues, making changes to the site data historian system (OSI PI) in line with site change control procedures and site standards, responding to system events and performing routine system maintenance checks.
- Develop standard operating procedures, work instructions and other job aids to ensure the appropriate level of documentation is in place to train on, maintain and operate OSI PI, alarm management and alarm notification systems.
- Provide subject matter expertise on data historian systems design, development, installation, testing, validation, and lifecycle support.
- Design, configuration, and testing of the platform (OSI PI). This includes: OSI PI Server Infrastructure, OSI PI Integration with Emerson DeltaV DCS solution, OSI PI Interfaces with other systems (e.g. BMS, PLCs, Remote IO), OSI PI Asset Frame design and build, Other OSI PI related solutions such as PI Vision.
Other
- Mentor process control team, including design, controls philosophy, implementation and commissioning
- Develop and implement the Automation Engineering Project Plan.
- Provide periodic status updates to Project Management
- Maintain Data Historian System health and respond to issues as they arise
- Demonstrated initiative, good planning and organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, commitment to task completion and timelines.
