Calibration Supervisor - Lilly Medicine Foundry

Role Summary

The Calibration Supervisor is a key leader responsible for overseeing all calibration activities to ensure assets are managed in compliance with cGMP and other applicable standards. This role ensures equipment availability, reliability, and optimal performance by calibrating and maintaining process, facility, and utility equipment according to established guidelines. The Calibration Supervisor leads and develops a team of instrument technicians, fostering a culture of safety, technical expertise, and innovation, and aligns maintenance programs with safety, quality, and efficiency goals to support clinical trial medicine delivery within the Medicine Foundry.

This position will be responsible for developing initial processes and requirements for the calibration team in preparation for operation.

• Safety - Sets expectations for a positive & proactive safety culture, ensures team members are knowledgeable and compliant regarding safety procedures, policies, permits and practices.
• Initiates and leads accident, near miss reviews and incident notifications. Ensures proper housekeeping procedures are maintained.
• Quality – Responsible for the team’s compliance and meeting the quality standards as defined by cGMPs, Global Quality Standards, and local procedures.
• Manage People Effectively – Manage daily activities of the calibration and instrumentation team including attendance, overtime, resource planning, operational issues, performance management, development planning and reporting of results. Team schedule primarily Monday-Friday; night shift and weekend support may be required based on business needs.
• Calibration & Instrumentation Excellence – Main point of contact for calibration/instrumentation and escalation of any issues; ensure quality of calibration and maintenance plan execution.
• Team training and development; ensure team is current on training prior to assigning work.
• Calibration KPI management associated with the team’s performance.
• Aligns team priorities to support production schedule and equipment availability.
• Interfaces with customers to ensure alignment and effective prioritization of maintenance activities.
• Monitors processes to ensure work is performed in conformance with site and corporate goals.
• Reviews a subset of executed Work Orders.
• Owns incident reporting, investigation, and corrective measures; responsible for maintenance staffing including recruitment.

• Required: High School Diploma
• Required: 5+ years of industrial calibration or instrumentation experience in a leadership or supervisory role, FDA regulated industry preferred
• Required: Previous supervisory/leadership experience
• Required: Regulated GMP manufacturing experience
• Required: Strong understanding of electrical systems and calibration, including instrumentation (pressure, temperature, flow, level, pH); electrical test equipment (flukes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc.); electrical troubleshooting (24 VDC to 120 VAC)

• Manufacturing, industrial maintenance or building maintenance knowledge (preferred)
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with multiple levels within the organization
• Coaching and feedback delivery
• Prioritization, objective setting, and target achievement
• High-level customer service
• Ability to work autonomously
• Problem solving
• Computer proficiency
• CMMS experience (desired)

• High School Diploma