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Principal Design Engineer-Devices: Eli Lilly and Company

For more than 130 years, Eli Lilly and Company has been dedicated to meeting the health care needs of people in the United States and around the world. We address these needs primarily by developing innovative medicines—investing a higher percentage of our sales in research and development than any other major pharmaceutical company. If you are interested in being considered for employment with a “Best in Class” Pharmaceutical company, please review the following opportunity:
Principal Design Engineer-Devices
This role is the “senior” design engineer responsible for ensuring the integrity of robust device designs, through providing mechanical/electrical design expertise for all Delivery Device Research and Development (DDR&D), which includes the support of device projects in both the early-stage Advanced Development area, as well as subsequent, full-scale development that occurs in the Commercialization area. This individual will interface with all DDR&D project engineers and project teams, design partners and engineering firms involved in the design of Lilly devices.
KEY OBJECTIVES/DELIVERABLES:

• Provide technical expertise and ensuring robustness of device designs.
• Intellectual Property Support: Support LRL Legal by providing detailed technical expertise for ongoing support for Lilly device intellectual property( started under Advanced Development ).
• Technical Merit: Ensure that device design concepts are based on sound design principles.
• Technical Rigor: Ensure that device design resources utilize appropriate tools on their projects.
• Design and Moldability expertise: Ensure that the designs deployed are appropriate in their readiness for injection molding, metal stamping, die casting( other manufacturing processes ); manual and/or high speed assembly.
• Management Updates: As required, the individual is responsible to provide design related opinions to support the integrity of device projects for internal Senior Management for DDR&D projects.
• Coordinate Device Risk Assessment and Design Control Deliverables.
• Ensuring a thorough technical, project and business risk assessment is conducted and updated.
• Ensuring appropriate formal approval of required risk assessment documentation is accomplished.
• Ensuring all required design control deliverables are completed( including ensuring the completion of required Phase documentation and Phase closure ) and to facilitate timely product launches.
• Provide Design Expertise “Mentoring” to other engineers across other devices and provide expertise to others in Delivery Device Research and Development in design expertise.
  

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors and Advanced Degree Required (MS or PhD), Engineering or Technical related.
• Previous design and design coordination experience is required.
• Eight (8) to ten (10) years experience in the design and development of complex, integrated systems. This experience must have been in a regulated environment. This could be in: medical devices (preferred), consumer products (e.g., cell phones), automotive or defense or aerospace.
• This experience must be in the design of complex, integrated systems, which should include mechanical, electromechanical, electronic with integrated software and/or fluid handling systems and have supported these devices through manufacturing, of which five (5) or more years of that experience should have been in product development.
• Must be familiar with planning global launch forecasts and scheduling, to facilitate long-term product planning.
• The role requires strategic thinking to help assess the balance between technical risk, business impact, financial analysis(development costs and revenue projections) and customer preferences.
• Deep Engineering/Technical Skills: Basic engineering analysis, including design, stress, tolerance and finite element analysis (FEA).
• Engineering design and analytical tools, including but limited to: Failure Modes and Effects Analysis(FMEA) and Design of Experiments(DOE).
• The integration of design and manufacturing processes: specifically: Design for Manufacturability(DFM), Design for Assembly(DFA), Mold Flow Analysis and Design for Reliability(DFR).
• Analytical tools used in design, including but not limited to Quality Function Deployment(QFD).
  

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/PREFERENCES:

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Broad technical expertise( background in biomedical, mechanical, electrical, and/or plastics molding ).
• Familiarity with injection molding process; tooling design, gating, runners, etc.
• Ability to compare and contrast various design options and technology application options.
• Experience with circuit board design, assembly and inspection.
• Familiarity with processes used in the creation and documentation of intellectual property(invention disclosure memos, patent applications and drawings).
• Experience in product development including early stage product selection, an understanding of customer needs, and knowledge of industry trends, through maintaining contacts in device community.
• Exposure and general familiarity with validation and scale up issues.
• Ability to identify program risks, evaluate contingency plans, and implement plans to minimize risk.
  

Lilly credits its exceptional employees for its successes, and knows the key to ongoing achievement lies in attracting and retaining the best people. A company rich in heritage, Lilly employs individuals, conducts research and markets products worldwide. By providing for the unmet needs of our customers through a continuous stream of innovation, we will outgrow all competitors.
Lilly earns consistent and wide recognition for creating an exceptional work environment:

• Business Week magazine 50 Best Places To Launch A Career™
• FORTUNE America’s Most Admired Companies™
• FORTUNE 50 Best Companies for Minorities™
• Working Mother 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers™
• Industry Week magazine 100 Best-Managed Companies™
• Business Ethics magazine 100 Best Corporate Citizens™
• Science magazine Best Companies for Scientists™
  

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