Graduate Process Engineer

Graduate Process Engineer

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.

The graduate process engineering role is key to the Limerick site as we continue in our mission to develop and manufacture Lilly's pipeline products. Lilly is currently starting up a Next Generation Biotech Drug Substance Manufacturing Facility in Limerick, Ireland with a significant expansion ongoing. This facility is Lilly's most technically advanced manufacturing site and includes next-generation manufacturing technologies, advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will deliver improvements in safety and quality, and increased productivity and process performance. The successful candidate will work as a member of the Process Engineering and with cross-functional teams to support successful start-up of the facility and then assume day to day support for ongoing manufacturing in the facilities and designing / operating new unit operations to support manufacturing.

Typical responsibilities would include:

• Provide day-to-day process engineering support to large molecule manufacturing operations.
• Support and participate in start up and operational activities of large molecule unit operations and equipment.
• Initiate and implement facility and equipment upgrades to improve plant productivity and throughput.
• Facilitate the introduction of new products with associated new unit operations and equipment and ensure the processing at the site stays current with emerging processing and equipment innovations.
• Maintain ownership and oversight of equipment and equipment qualification within area of ownership
• Understand and apply chemical engineering first principles in the resolution of processing and equipment issues (incl use of modelling tools, etc)

Basic Requirements:

Entry graduate level position (0-2yrs), degree qualified – Biochemical/Chemical Engineering with relevant knowledge of upstream and downstream biopharmaceutical unit operations, manufacturing processes, reactor/bioreactor design and control, heat/mass transfer fundamentals, SIP/CIP, filtration, chromatography techniques etc.

Skills/Attributes:

• Deep technical interest and understanding in the field of Biochemical/Chemical Engineering.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part process team consisting of a diverse group of management, production/science and engineering professionals.
• Creativity to identify improvement opportunities and the tenacity/initiative to see them implemented.
• Flexibility to meet business needs.

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