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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Organization Overview:

For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

Lilly is designing and building a new state of the art Parenteral, Device Assembly, and Packaging Facility in Raleigh-Durham North Carolina.  This is an exciting opportunity to help build a state-of-the-art facility and Quality System from the ground up. 

Responsibilities:

This role is expected to be an on-the-floor leader and will be a subject matter expert for the material preparation (parts washing, material preparation, and autoclave) process in a new line PFS5 (Night Shift). This role will have the opportunity to be directly involved with hiring and training their team. Based on general production schedule, the Operations Supervisor is expected to generate detailed hour-by-hour schedule for the area to support parenteral operations.

• Support startup of a new material preparation (parts washing, material prep, sterilization) PFS5 suite.
• Lead a team to support day-to-day activities required for CQV.

• Champion implementing 5S in the new suite.
• Support existing production line scheduling (5-10%)
• Analyze existing line and implement continuous improvements.

Basic Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent
• 3+ years experience in operations. At least 1 of year of supervisory experience supporting parenteral operations.
• Must have extensive knowledge in supporting activities for filling operations.

• Must have extensive knowledge of day-to-day production scheduling.

• Ability to work 12-hour night shifts (2-2-3 schedule).

• Ability to work in a controlled environment (classified and not classified) which requires company-provided gowning.

• Must have strong hold time (dirty, clean, sterile) requirements and must be able to schedule day-to-day activities based on this understanding.

• Must have proven ability to problem-solve and escalate at appropriately.


Additional Skills/Preferences:
• Computer skills (Smart Sheet, Excel, Word).
• Biowork Certificate is a plus.

Additional Information:
• This position is for the Lilly Research Triangle Park site and on-site presence is required.

• Travel up to 5% during startup.
• During startup support, this role may require working four (4) 10 hour shifts.

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Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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