Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, leading safety initiatives, and working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.
Hire, manage and grow a team of scientists tasked with support of technology transfer, process validation, manufacturing operations, and continuous improvement. Accountable for the performance and results of the TSMS production support function.
Hiring, performance management, and development of staff
Partner within TSMS and across functional disciplines to influence and implement the technical agenda, site business plan objectives and GMP Quality Plan objectives
Ensure adequate oversight and technical excellence for investigations and complaints.
Technical review and approval for site quality documents, plans, regulatory submissions, validation-related documents, and studies.
Interact with regulators, customers, or other outside stakeholders on business issues or in support of internal and external agency audits
Define strategic direction and provide oversight for setting the technical agenda to improve process capability, process control, yield, and/or productivity for all products within the site portfolio.
Network globally to share best practices, rationale, and control strategies to ensure harmonization and alignment between sites.
Basic Requirements:
Bachelors or Masters in Chemistry, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biochemical engineering or related science field.
5+ years of cGMP commercial API manufacturing experience in Technical Services or associated disciplines such as Manufacturing, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Advanced Project Management, Development, Regulatory Sciences or Engineering.
Additional Preferences:
Experience in small molecule, peptide, or oligonucleotide manufacturing.
Technical leadership, administrative and organizational skills.
Proficiency in delivering highly complex tasks and/or tasks that are highly cross-functional.
Demonstrated Project Management skills and ability to coordinate complex projects.
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate and influence effectively across functio
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
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 40,000 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 currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for production of API molecules located in Houston, TX. This facility is intended to provide APIs for current and future products, including new modalities. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the leadership team for the startup of a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to build the organization, the facility and the culture to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.
Main Purpose and Objectives:
The TS/MS Associate Director is responsible for leading/mentoring a technical staff and understanding chemical synthesis processing as it relates to cGMP API commercial manufacturing. This role is responsible to manage routine production support activities while balancing implementation of technical projects and process optimizations, providing guidance on time management and priorities for direct reports. Key position responsibilities are supporting technical transfer of new processes to site, developing and executing the process and process-related validation plans, establishing control and capability of the process, and maintaining GMP compliance in all associated documents and activities. The position requires knowledge of cGMPs, applicable global regulatory manufacturing guidance, and the corporate/industry standards for validation. This position will interact with engineering, manufacturing, validation, quality assurance, quality control, development, and regulatory departments to influence and implement the technical agenda within a multi-discipline technical environment. Interaction may be required with other Lilly site/contract producers of Lilly products.
Eli Lilly · Houston TX