Advisor - Process Safety Management, GHSE

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The Advisor, Process Safety is a member of the HSE – Global Manufacturing function at Lilly, facilitating enterprise-wide process safety governance, technical leadership, strategic direction and advisory expertise for the company’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program across Lilly’s global manufacturing network.

 

Operating from the center, this role coordinates PSM program delivery, facilitates governance, advises site PSM professionals and senior leaders, and partners with Engineering Tech Center (ETC) and Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) to ensure compliance and drive capability development, and risk reduction across all Lilly manufacturing sites.

 

The role represents Lilly at external industry bodies (ACC, EPSC, CCPS), monitors evolving regulatory and best-practice requirements, and translates these into enterprise standards and guidance for the global manufacturing network.

 

Responsibilities

• Facilitate enterprise-wide PSM governance: facilitate the PSM Board of Directors, facilitate monthly Technology Team meetings, coordinate PSM Conferences and workshops, and report PSM performance metrics to senior leadership.
• Manage global requirements and associated metrics to drive continuous improvement in PSM performance and process safety risk reduction (HSE-STD-500 and assigned Engineering Design Standards). Monitors external regulatory changes and ensure standards are updated as appropriate.

• Serve as a technical expert for process safety, provide oversight and technical input to PSM event investigations, applicability evaluations, change reviews, and PHR evaluations to ensure robust outcomes and broad learning.

• Drive standardization of agreed PSM program elements, tools, and PSM software platforms across all Lilly manufacturing sites; build GHSE–ETC linkage to advance process safety engineering standardization. Drives replication of best practices and controls through standardization of requirements.

• Develops training strategy for key PSM roles across the global manufacturing network; develop and maintain centrally owned PSM training content in partnership with the Chemical Hazards Lab (CHL), ETC and sites; identify and deploy external professional training on PSM topics as appropriate.

• Leads development of strategy to continuously improve PSM; owns PSM initiative list and tracks implementation.

• Supports site HSE Leaders for staff PSM development. Provide leadership to PSM Technical Team members to improve proficiencies and conformance to standards, and support development of the PSM roadmap. Coaches PSM professionals at new and growing sites; fosters a cross-site collaboration and lessons-learned sharing culture.

• Serves as a technical expert for facility design reviews and engineering control recommendations. Leads PSM integration into GFD capital projects; supports new site start-ups until site PSM resources are established.

• Maintains a strong partnership with the Engineering Technical Center (ETC) and establishes/maintains strong external linkages (ACC, EPSC and CCPS) to drive internal innovation and strategy.

 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, safety, environmental, chemistry, or a related scientific or engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years in process safety or a related HSE discipline within pharmaceutical or chemical manufacturing.
• Training in PSM topics as appropriate, e.g. PHA, Process Safety Culture, Incident Investigation etc.

 

Additional Skills / Preferences

 

• Master's Degree preferred
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver program improvements across a matrixed, multinational organization.

• Proven ability to lead teams in solving complex HSE problems.

• Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and influencing skills; strong oral and written communication; ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.

• Experience designing and delivering safety training programs and competency frameworks.

• Active engagement with external industry bodies such as ACC, EPSC, and CCPS.

• Solid process safety expertise in PSM/RMP elements (PHRs, Incident Management); proven application of OSHA PSM (29 CFR 1910.119), EPA RMP, COMAH, EU Seveso III.
• Proficient in English; additional languages are an advantage.
• Proficient in chemical safety hazard evaluation

• Proficient in PSM tools and platforms

• Process safety auditing experience and proficient in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigative techniques.

 

Additional Information

Position Location:  Indianapolis, IN; or hosted at Lilly PSM site.

Travel Percentage (%):  Up to 20% annually; domestic and international travel to manufacturing sites, external conferences, and industry working groups.

Shift Information:  Standard business hours; occasional flexibility required to support global time zones.

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

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

$129,000 - $211,200

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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