Process Automation Engineer

Description:

Full Job Description

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 35,000 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.

Lilly is designing and building a Next Generation Biotech Drug Substance Manufacturing Facility in Limerick, Ireland. This is an exciting opportunity to help build and operate a state-of-the-art manufacturing site from the ground up. Our new Limerick facility will be one of Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing sites and will include next-gen manufacturing technologies, and advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will result in safety and quality improvements, increased productivity, and variability reduction.

Responsibilities:

The process automation engineer will work as a member of the Process Automation Department at Eli Lilly, Limerick. The engineer will provide automation support for one or more operating areas across site and/or for capital projects. Process Automation is core to delivering a right first time facility start up and continued support of ongoing manufacturing operations into the future.

Key Responsibilities:

In line with the job outlined above, the following are typically the key tasks that would be expected of the role:

• Provide day-to-day operation's support related to the site control systems. This includes working with Technical Services and Operations personnel to trouble shoot issues, making changes to the control systems in line with site change control procedures and site standards, responding to system events and performing routine computer system maintenance checks

• Develop and possess a deep understanding of the process design for their specific process area by working closely with client Process Engineers and Operations Representatives

During Major projects :

• Technically lead and oversee the work and work products that the System Integrator produces 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

• Provide periodic status updates to Project Management

• Devising functional requirements and process control strategies for control systems in collaboration with Process Engineering

• DCS software design, coding/configuration and testing (sequence logic, graphics, batch software etc.)

• Project Management of automation projects

• Process Control Engineering including design, tuning and troubleshooting of control loops

• Implementing and supporting electronic systems (such as plant historians) 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

• Promoting the use of automation to improve productivity, operational efficiency and compliance

• Developing a ‘network’ of corporate contacts and leveraging corporate expertise when needed

• Interacting with external parties (e.g. vendors, consortiums)

• In carrying out his/her responsibilities, the role is expected to work very closely with a wide spectrum of disciplines/people.