Eli Lilly is looking for a Senior Principal Engineer - Automation Engineering to provide automation support for manufacturing operations and capital projects at their Foundry site. The role is crucial for ensuring reliable and compliant control applications and systems, supporting the technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance objectives within the process control organization.
Requirements
- Experience in design, development, commissioning and qualification of highly automated greenfield manufacturing sites utilizing SCADA, DCS, PLC and MES systems (DeltaV, Rockwell, Syncade, etc).
- Experience in facilitating and driving decision-making at an organizational level.
- DCS and SCADA software design, coding/configuration and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software etc.)
- Perform automation engineering activities including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops
- Implement and support electronic systems (such as plant historians, applications and software integration) used to capture process automation related production data
- Maintain the validated state of the site control systems in line with Lilly quality standards including the development and execution of validation strategies and associated documentation
- Automation support for capital projects including new product introductions
Responsibilities
- Technically lead and oversee the work of Site Area leads and System Integrator including Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, DCS Application Software, Test Specifications.
- Lead/Participate in design reviews and DeltaV application software reviews, attend equipment and software FATs
- Lead a team of automation engineers supporting commissioning
- Devising functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems in collaboration with Process Engineering
- DCS and SCADA software design, coding/configuration and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software etc.)
- Perform automation engineering activities including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops
- Implement and support electronic systems (such as plant historians, applications and software integration) used to capture process automation related production data
Other
- Mentor process control team, including design, controls philosophy, implementation and commissioning
- Provide periodic status updates to Project Management
- Demonstrated initiative, good planning and organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, commitment to task completion and timelines.
- Possess a keen technical curiosity and has demonstrated strong problem-solving skills and a desire for continuous improvement
- Demonstrated ability to influence peers and business partners
