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Sr. Principal Engineer - Project Planning & Scheduling

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At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Role Summary

The Sr. Principal Engineer, Project Planning & Scheduling serves as GFD's enterprise process owner for planning and scheduling across the global capital portfolio. The role is accountable for establishing, governing, and continuously improving standards, methodologies, systems, and performance measures that support schedule development, forecasting, and execution throughout the project lifecycle. Through technical leadership, governance, and assurance, the role ensures consistent application of planning and scheduling requirements across projects, contractors, and business partners while improving schedule quality, predictability, compliance, and project delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as GFD's enterprise process owner for planning and scheduling, establishing standards, governance requirements, methodologies, and performance expectations across the capital portfolio.
  • Develop, maintain, and continuously improve enterprise planning and scheduling standards, procedures, work instructions, templates, and assurance frameworks.
  • Establish scheduling requirements for all phases of project delivery, including project development, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV), startup, operational readiness, and operational handover.
  • Define and govern schedule quality requirements, including schedule development, logic integrity, critical path methodology, progress measurement, forecasting, schedule risk analysis, and schedule performance management.
  • Lead planning and scheduling assurance activities across the portfolio to verify compliance with enterprise standards and drive corrective actions where deficiencies are identified.
  • Establish planning and scheduling requirements for contractors, consultants, and delivery partners and ensure consistent implementation across projects and regions.
  • Serve as GFD's senior technical SME for schedule recovery, acceleration planning, scenario analysis, forecasting, and schedule risk mitigation.
  • Govern enterprise KPIs and performance measures related to schedule quality, forecasting accuracy, schedule predictability, and project delivery performance.
  • Partner with project teams, contractors, and business partners to improve scheduling capability, strengthen project execution strategies, and promote adoption of best practices.
  • Build organizational capability through training, mentoring, communities of practice, and continuous improvement initiatives that advance planning and scheduling excellence across the portfolio.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Business, Supply Chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise in planning and scheduling for large, complex capital projects, including development, governance, and assurance of integrated schedules, application of critical path methodology, forecasting, schedule risk analysis, and establishment of enterprise scheduling standards and best practices.
  • Proficiency with Primavera P6
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.
  • Position is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Professional certification from AACE International, PMI, CMAA, or a similar professional organization.
  • Experience serving as a planning and scheduling lead, center-of-excellence lead, or process owner supporting large capital project portfolios.
  • Experience supporting integrated project delivery across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV), startup, operational readiness, and operational handover.
  • Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, or other complex industrial capital programs, including contractor scheduling governance and assurance.
  • Proficiency with enterprise planning, scheduling, project controls, and project information management systems, including application of integrated master scheduling, schedule assurance, schedule recovery, scenario analysis, KPI management, and portfolio performance reporting.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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

$67,500 - $173,800

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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