Facilities Engineer

Lilly is currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for monoclonal antibodies, bioconjugates, and aseptic drug product manufacturing in Goochland County, Virginia. This facility is intended to provide capacity for current and future products. The successful candidate will help to build the organization, the facility and the culture to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations. 

We are seeking a Facilities Engineer to support our new Manufacturing Facility in Goochland County, Virginia.

Key Responsibilities: 

• The maintenance element of the Integrated Facility Management (IFM) contract for facility management and maintenance service. 

• Managing of external contractors involved in maintenance of facilities to ensure quality of work and compliance with all company policies and regulatory guidelines. 

• Providing key expertise and technical leadership in the areas of facility maintenance. 

• The development of technical systems, processes and best practices for the facility management program. 

• The reliability strategies, identification of failure modes and development of mitigation strategy within the IFM maintenance program 

• Ensuring site compliance to corporate standards and guidelines for facility management. 

• Coordinating the governance team for IFM outsourced services 

• Developing, issuing and maintaining of key performance metrics for the facilities services.

• Review inspections of building systems including fire alarms, HVAC, and plumbing to ensure operation of equipment is within design capabilities and achieves environmental conditions prescribed by client.

Leadership:

• Partner with Site HSE Team to ensure site compliance of IFM 

• Lead/Coordinate the event investigations, CAPA and change control processes within facility management team 

• Lead the ongoing development of asset management strategy including the collection and analysis of data relating to asset condition, maintenance costs, reliability, risk and obsolescence, relevant assets management plans. 

• Lead the development of recapitalization plans for facility management area. 

• Identify, propose and promote opportunities to reduce costs. 

• Act as User Rep for larger Re-capitalization projects associated with facility management area. 

Key Attributes: 

• Business Knowledge: High performance in delivery of their work. Looks at better, simpler ways, takes initiative and will run proactively with actions. Demonstrated self-management, prioritization, and organizational skills. 

• Learning agility and Curiosity: High learning agility and flexibility and ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty. Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize problems, develop, and implement solutions. 

• Positive Influence: Demonstrated ability to address issues as they arise and act accordingly. Trusted in the team to follow through on actions.  Is interested in own performance and seeks feedback to improve. 

• Relationship Builder: Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain key relationships across all levels in the organization. 

• Ability to lead people: Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate in a team environment. Demonstrated ability to influence peers and across functions.

• Communication: Demonstrated strong communication skills, written and oral in 1:1 and group situations.

• Decision Making: Demonstrated ability to be decisive and make well informed decisions for the benefit of the team.  Demonstrated ability to collate required information and ask the appropriate questions of peers to get to the best solution. 

Basic Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Preferably in Building Services/Mechanical Engineering or related field.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Facility or Maintenance Engineering Teams, preferably in a manufacturing GMP environment. 

• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Additional Skill/Preferences:

• Project Management experience

• LEED Certification preferred

• Excellent knowledge of mechanical building services 

• Previous experience of owning a facility management program. 

• Confident in talking to a wide range of people to build relationships, and ability to build and maintain strong relationships with site stakeholders including site lead team, production, quality, safety and global engineering. 

• Minimal travel required <10%.